Twitter Blue Is for People Who Love Reading the News | WIRED

Should you get Twitter Blue? That depends on whether you consider yourself a “power user.” The platform’s new subscription service, which costs $3 per month, comes with a suite of requested features: bookmark folders for organizing saved tweets, a “reading mode” that declutters long threads, and a (sort of) edit button, good for 30 seconds of revisions after a tweet is sent. It also comes with ad-free access to articles from a number of journalism outfits, like The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic.Compared to the number of third-party apps that give Twitter more brawn—plug-ins that help you auto-delete your tweets or search within the tweets you’ve liked—Twitter Blue feels a little overwhelming. But considering it’s the company’s first-ever paid product, Twitter has chosen to go narrow, catering to a small group of people by giving them exactly the features they want.Photograph: TwitterTwitter Blue doesn’t get rid of ads in a user’s feed or change much about the tweeting experience itself. But it is part of the company’s plan to diversify its revenue beyond advertising and become more than a place to share thoughts in 280 characters. In January, Twitter acquired the newsletter company Revue and Breaker, an audio…
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