It appears that Twitter is serious about launching a paid service.
The company’s own listing in Apple’s App Store now says the Twitter app offers in-app purchases. The only in-app purchase listed is for something called ‘Twitter Blue,’ and it costs $2.99.
Look what we have here.
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We’ve known about this for a few weeks; researcher Jane Manchun Wong recently dug out references to Twitter Blue, as well as the $2.99 price, in the Twitter app. One of the features offered by what is presumably Twitter’s paid, premium service, is Collections, which lets you “save and organize your favorite Tweets into Collections so that they’re easier to find later.” Read more…
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