{"id":149239,"date":"2022-10-31T22:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/elon-musks-twitter-is-planning-to-charge-20-for-verification"},"modified":"2022-10-31T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T03:22:42","slug":"elon-musks-twitter-is-planning-to-charge-20-for-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/elon-musks-twitter-is-planning-to-charge-20-for-verification","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter is planning to charge $20 for verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2022\/10\/28\/5545380361257398975\/1024x576_MP4_5545380361257398975.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Just days after taking over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/twitter\/index.html\" id=\"mol-69a11780-58c5-11ed-b6bf-f96e410cae62\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/elon-musk\/index.html\" id=\"mol-698d8f80-58c5-11ed-b6bf-f96e410cae62\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> has issued an ultimatum to engineers over a new project.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/10\/30\/23431931\/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription\">The Verge,<\/a> Musk wants to launch a pay-for-play verification system in which verified users are charged $20 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The kicker is that engineers have until November 7 to launch the scheme or face being fired. Employees were only told of the project on October 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has issued an ultimatum to engineers over a new project. According to a report from The Verge, Musk wants to launch a pay-for-play verification system in which verified users are charged $20 per month. The kicker is that engineers have until November 7 to launch the scheme [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}