Twitter to put TweetDeck behind a paywall

NEW YORK –

Another controversial change is coming to Twitter.

Soon, solely verified customers will be capable to entry TweetDeck, the dashboard that permits customers to arrange and simply monitor the accounts they comply with, the platform tweeted Monday. Many companies and media organizations use the function to handle and observe totally different feeds.

The change will go into impact in a month.

It’s the most recent change by billionaire proprietor Elon Musk, who took over the corporate final yr and has since sought so as to add income streams to the social media big – at the same time as some customers have protested the modifications.

In April Musk started providing a blue verify mark for customers who join its Twitter Blue subscription service.

The news of the TweetDeck paywall got here days after Musk introduced momentary studying limits on Twitter, limiting verified customers to studying 10,000 tweets a day, together with 1,000 tweets for unverified accounts and 500 for brand spanking new unverified accounts. Musk stated it was resulting from “extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation,” although that reasoning hasn’t been confirmed.

The firm tweeted it was releasing a “new, improved version of TweetDeck” however added that every one saved searches, lists and columns would carry over to the brand new website.

“In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck,” the tweet stated.

Users had complained in regards to the outdated model of TweetDeck being down after Musk applied the studying limits.

And simply earlier than that, Twitter seemed to be limiting entry to its platform for anybody not logged into an account.

Twitter confronted an exodus of advertisers when Musk took over.