The QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre Professor Daniel Angus joined Deborah Knight to lay out the issues with Twitter and Meta charging users for the ‘blue tick’. 

Starting from March 20, Twitter will only offer SMS-based two-factor authentication to users who pay for Twitter Blue at $8 USD per month.

Meta is currently testing a subscription fee for the blue tick in Australia and New Zealand, which serves as a type of 2FA.

It cost boils down to $12 per month for web users and $15 per month for mobile users.

Professor Angus has called this act “extortionate”.

See more highlights from Deborah Knight below: