Even people that were fully qualified for the (old) Twitter Blue checkmark were extorted for an average of $13k, which they should have gotten for free.

To me, value of the paid blue check - on Twitter - is that it's an in-your-face to the Old Blue Checks. (Value on Facebook: none)

Old Twitter's process for blue checks was corrupt. They did extreme favoritism, toward 1) libs, or/and 2) people who would secretly slip a Twitter employee thousand$$.

New Twitter's Blue Check is as democratic & clean as going to the grocery store. Old Blue Checks can't stand it.

50% ads are coming around 1 Sept 2023.

280 (thought it was 240) characters are the norm, but with Blue, you get 4k characters.

There are also 60-minute video uploads. You can only watch the video on the web, for now, but you still get notified on mobile apps that it exists.

You also get more character spaces to tweet.

This is limited, at the moment, to the original 5 paid Blue checkmark countries; US, UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ. This will expand to all countries by the end of 2023.

I haven't seen anything about what FB is offering.

But what about this option for Facebook? What will it come with?

According to Twitter, you get;

The blue checkmark

50% fewer ads in your feed

"most talked about stories" feed aka Top Stories

An advanced reader

better support, but not top tier support, it's only £8 after all and we ain't that special

30 minutes to edit a tweet

there are a few other things too that I can't remember

Monthly fees aren't always bad.

In video games, monthly fees are my choice because "free to play" almost always means "pay to win".