Twitter Blue Subscription Now Requires Phone Number Verification

Twitter Blue is back again. And this time, it now requires subscribers to verify their phone numbers to sign up for the highly-coveted verification badge.

Given that, besides new accounts, current users without any verified phone numbers are out of luck unless they comply.

The relaunch of the Blue subscription also introduced a slew of new terms to improve the service.

Twitter Blue Subscription Now Needs to Verify Your Phone Number

According to a recent report by Tech Crunch, the Twitter Blue service is back shortly after Elon Musk announced its suspension.

The Chief Twit halted the service after the billionaire entrepreneur decided to add the Blue check mark verification to its paid subscription. Since then, several accounts parodied people on Twitter, including Musk, while sporting the verification badge. It got pretty chaotic.

But this time, Musk and the folks behind Twitter appears to have figured out what to do. The relaunch of the Blue service places a few precautions to tame the madness. To be precise, the new version has updated terms before users can sign up.

Tech Crunch notes in its report that the updated terms of Twitter now require users to verify their phone numbers.

If ever you are attempting to subscribe and can not give a verified phone number, you will be asked to do so to proceed. It sure is not an optional part of signing up.

Twitter Blue Relaunches with New Terms

Besides phone number verification, the new Twitter Blue also requires subscribers to do a few more things.

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As per the news story by The Verge, the relaunch now comes with a "lightly described review process." It is on top of the requirement for a verified phone number.

Twitter says that new accounts up to 90 days old are ineligible to join the subscription service.

Not only that, when users update their profile photo, username, or display name, they will automatically lose the coveted blue checkmark. But do not fret. It should be back once the changes get validated.

It is worth noting that while Twitter is still reviewing it, users can not make any new changes.

Tech Crunch reports that some users who have previously changed their name, username, and profile photo before signing up might be unable to do so. However, the updated terms failed to explain what are the possibilities that they could still do so.

The social network also says that accounts that have been inactive for the last 30 days "may be unable to sign up." So it looks like that in some undisclosed cases they could still do so.