The new subscription should be a prerequisite for Twitter customers to verify their user accounts with the blue tick in the future. In addition, Blue subscribers should enjoy other benefits, such as significantly less advertising.

Twitter's director of product development, Esther Crawford, explained that the new Blue version is not yet active, but that updates are already beginning "because we test changes and initiate them in real time".

On Friday, multi-billionaire Musk laid off around half of his 7,500 employees. Musk had already fired Twitter management immediately after the takeover. Musk took over Twitter last Thursday for $44 billion.

Musk made transforming Twitter Blue a priority. According to reports, employees worked day and night on the task in order to be able to meet the start date of November 7th.

So far, user accounts from politicians, celebrities, journalists and organizations, for example, have been verified and marked with a blue tick in the standard offer without asking for money.