Twitter shouldn’t be hiding basic app improvements behind its Blue paywall
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter launched its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, in the US this week - it's a $2.99 per month service that promises to make Twitter more customizable, more frictionless, and simply put - better."
Let's start just by looking at what's actually included in a Twitter Blue subscription.
- Ad-Free Articles (a take on Scroll, for articles you click through on Twitter)
- Top Articles (a take on Nuzzel, for articles discussed on Twitter)
- Themes
- Bookmark folders
- Customizable navigation
- An undo button" for Tweets
- A Reader" mode for reading threads
- Twitter Blue Labs for early access features, including longer videos and pinned DMs
Looking at that list, there are two different categories of things here: features that enhance or support...