India’s ‘first’ Twitter user undecided on whether to pay for blue tick

Amid the controversy over Twitter charging $8 for verifying an account with a blue tick, the social media platform’s likely first user in India said she is yet to decide whether she will pay for the subscription.

Twitter’s chief executive officer Elon Musk has announced the pay-for-verification feature as part of his plans to turn the company profitable. The subscription to get a blue tick for $7.99 was launched on Saturday for iOS users in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The blue tick will cost alike for celebrities and other users already having verified status.

Naina Redhu, an entrepreneur based out of Jaisalmer, joined the platform in 2006 after getting an invitation email from what was then called ‘TWTTR’.