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TECH T@LK

Twitter Blue now available in Meta brings new status

India at the cost of features to WhatsApp

Rs 650-900 per month eta has now added several

new features to WhatsApp
witter Blue is now available their app, prioritise their tweet re- Mstatus, which will let users
in India! Twitter Blue, which plies, and undo a tweet before it is post disappearing pictures and other
Twas previously exclusively visible to other users. media.
available in a few countries, is now Not just this, ads will become According to The Verge, an
available for Indian users. The paid half and the user will be able to post American technology news website,
service, which provides the coveted longer videos. once the features roll out over the
and now tainted blue tick mark, sig- Twitter Blue subscribers have a coming weeks, you’ll be able to react
nifying validity, costs INR 650 and character limit of 4,000, whereas oth- to people’s posts with an emoji, lim- next status you post, but you’ll be
INR 900 per month on the website er users have a character restriction it who can see your status, and post able to change it without changing
and mobile, respectively. of 280. voice messages. The announcement the visibility of past statuses.
Also, if you decide to take the Before India, Twitter made this post read that the status emoji reac- Other features are small qual-
annual subscription, you end up re- service available in the US, UK, tions work similarly to how they do ity-of-life improvements. Statuses
ceiving INR 1,000 discount. So in- Canada, Saudi Arabia, Australia, on Instagram; when you swipe up on that include links will also be more vi-
stead of paying INR 7,800, you only New Zealand, Germany, and France the post, you get the option to choose sually appealing -- Meta says there’ll
pay INR 6,800. among many others. from one of eight emojis. now be previews for the site or page
Twitter Blue brings along a lot Also, prior to the launch of Twit- The feature lets you change who that the link will take you to.
of unique features. Its subscribers ter Blue, the blue tick was assigned can see your statuses, with the option WhatsApp is also trying to make
will have first access to features such to authentic accounts of celebrities, to show it to everyone, hide it from it clearer when people post status by
as tweet editing, bookmark folders, politicians, and public figures. How- certain contacts, or only show it to adding a ring around their profile
unique app icons, and NFT profile ever, now anyone who pays the sub- specific people, reported The Verge. picture in the chat lists, group partic-
images. Such users will also be able scription cost can now purchase the According to Meta, the options ipant lists, and contact info screens,
to select multiple colour themes for checkmark via Twitter Blue. you pick will be the default for the as per The Verge.

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