Tweetdeck now offers a paid subscription plan
According to TechCrunch, Tweetdeck, which is now known as X Pro, a popular version of Twitter used by social media professionals, journalists, and others, has been included in the paid Blue subscription. Several users have mentioned that they were asked to subscribe when trying to access the service. The message states that Blue subscribers who have a verified phone number will receive a blue checkmark after their approval.
The news is not unexpected, as code discovered by researcher Jane Manchun Wong earlier this year indicated that X Pro was becoming a paid app. However, the change seems to only affect the new version, but not the older (better) version, at least until it is decommissioned.
X has been testing the new version since last year, with changes including “a full tweet composer, new advanced search features, new column types, and a new way to group columns into clean workspaces,” the company said at the time. However, some power users don’t like it because it makes it more difficult to clear columns and perform other common operations.
The company has previously considered a TweetDeck subscription service, asking users in 2017 if they would be willing to pay up to $20 per month for a “more advanced TweetDeck experience.” The new operation is part of Elon Musk’s attempt to monetize the app with Blue subscriptions, but the service only had about 700,000 subscribers last June. Musk has also promised to make X an “everything app” used for content creation, payments and shopping in addition to social networking.
