Twitter will reserve text-message authentication for Twitter Blue subscribers because it's being 'abused' by 'bad actors'
:"Unlimited texting costs me like $40 a month, you guys can use my plan if you want to."
The move appears to be Twitter's latest push to increase revenues. Shortly after Elon Musk's takeover last October, it introduced Twitter Blue, which allows users to pay for the blue checkmarks previously reserved to high-profile figures. sparked controversy by announcing that it planned to charge developers a minimum of $100 a month to access its API, which was used to build popular third-party services like Tweetbot and Twitterrific.
On Friday, Elon Musk also pledged to counter"irrelevant" and"annoying" adverts on Twitter by taking"the corrective action" of tying ads to keywords and topics.
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