Twitter reportedly to launch ‘Twitter Blue’ a paid subscription with new features

Twitter has quietly confirmed to launch a paid subscription service with new features called “Twitter Blue”. As per reports, the in-app purchase for Twitter Blue was added to the App Store listing of Twitter. However, it has not been officially rolled out to users. The subscription service will reportedly be rolled out to the American users first at $2.99 a month while in India it may cost somewhere around Rs 200.

Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong spotted the Twitter update first wrote on Twitter, “Twitter confirms “Twitter Blue”, which costs $2.99 per month by publicly including such In-App Purchase on the App Store. For testing, I’ve become the first paying Twitter Blue customer. Twitter Blue comes with Color Themes as well as custom App Icons. Reader Mode coming soon”. Manchun has shared the screenshot of the feature.

The Twitter Blue subscription will let users change the color of the app icon – there are various color options given in the menu. Similarly, users can also change the color theme from blue to pink, green, red, yellow, orange, and more. Apart from the color pallets, the Twitter subscription service includes an “undo tweet” feature as well as a “reader mode”.

However, Twitter is yet to make anything official about its feature, it has been added to the in-app purchase in the App Store hints that the feature could be launching anytime soon.