𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 $20 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a more expensive subscription that also verifies users, according to people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence seen by The Verge. Twitter is currently planning to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue checkmark. Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired.

Musk has been clear in the months leading up to his acquisition that he wanted to revamp how Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. On Sunday, he tweeted: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now.”

Platformer’s Casey Newton first reported that Twitter was considering charging for verification. A spokesperson for Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.

Even though he is barely three days into being “Chief Twit,” Musk has moved quickly to make changes at Twitter, first by changing its homepage for logged out users. With the help of Tesla engineers he has brought into Twitter as advisors, he’s also planning mass layoffs aimed at middle managers and engineers who haven’t recently contributed to the code base. Those cuts are expected to begin this week with managers already creating lists of employees to cut. Employees tasked with executing projects of Musk’s since he took control Thursday evening have been working late into the night and over the weekend.

The Twitter Blue subscription launched widely almost a year ago as a way to view ad-free articles from some publishers and make other tweaks to the app, such as a different color home screen icon. In the few quarters that Twitter reported earnings as a public company after that debut, advertising remained the vast majority of its revenue. Musk is keen on growing subscriptions to become half of the company’s overall revenue.

Ladi kwali (1925 -1984), the woman on the Nigeria twenty naira note. She was born in the village of kwali, Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was a common occupation among women. She was so skilled that her work became known in Europe, Britain and America. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, her work was displayed in London at the Berkeley Galleries. She became Nigeria's best - known Potter, was awarded a decorate and was made MBE in 1963 despite not having a formal education.

Credit: Blacks Region

Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself and stopping his heart. A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed mouth-to-mouth CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived. This famous photo is known as "The Kiss of Life." (1967).

📸 by Rocco Morabito.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗭𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴?

Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, invited five people 18 years ago to his Harvard room.
Reason?

Talk to them about a business opportunity. Only two arrived at the meeting, listened and helped his project.

Today both are billionaires: Dustin Moskovitz with more than 17.8 billion and Eduardo Saverin with more than 20 billion dollars.

When a friend comes to talk about a business opportunity, always keep an open mind!

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Rihanna announces Burna Boy as the African artiste to perform at her company "Savage & Fenty" Vol. 4 Launch Party..🔥🔥🔥🔥

Madtt!😱
“Machala” crooner, Carter Efe has just bagged a 20,000,000 naira deal as the brand ambassador of Fekomi Global limited, one of the biggest herbal brands in the Africa🔥‼️

Carter Efe is now cashing out like Machala 😁🦅
Congratulations to him 👏👏
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