Twitter is in a rush to make money, and another potentially profitable step is to expand its Twitter Blue subscription to six new countries. Paid plans are currently available in Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, for a total of 12 regions that users can subscribe to.
The company has also launched a new Space Tab with curated stations of live and recorded Space alongside podcasts.[スペース]You can access tabs, but most of the live audio sessions that are currently in progress are displayed.
Twitter is also bringing back themed stations, which list Spaces stations by topic. The company had already begun testing in August before Musk took over. But in recent months, Spaces has done very little curation due to headcount reductions. Social networks may now rely on algorithms to group related real-time voice conversations.
The social network makes its podcasts available only to Blue subscribers and “some people on the Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Android apps”. Podcasts were also integrated into Twitter in the pre-Musk era, but the company appears to be resuming work on some of those projects. According to Twitter, there is initially no way to search for podcasts. So you should listen to whatever the algorithm has to offer.
Twitter Blue’s expansion is no surprise, as the company aims to bring in more revenue in every possible way. Last month, the social media company made it possible for Android users to get a subscription. On Thursday, Twitter announced that it would discontinue free access to its API and roll out a basic paid plan next week.The company didn’t disclose the price tag, but Elon Musk tweeted the basic plan May cost $100/month — This can be tough for some independent developers, students, and researchers.
The company has recorded a decline in ad revenue, but the good news for Musk is that a number of companies, including PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch InBev, have reportedly poured millions into their Super Bowl takeover ads on Twitter. Last month, the social network partnered with ad tech firm DoubleVerify Integral Ad Science (IAS) to let marketers know if their ads were appearing next to inappropriate tweets.
