Elon Musk Announces $8/Month Twitter Plan To Prioritize Paying Users’ Tweets, Reduce Ads, And More After days of speculation over whether new “Chief Twit” Elon Musk would charge $20 to be verified on Twitter, Musk announced a revised Twitter Blue program via — of course — Twitter. Calling the existing system of verification with blue checkmarks “bullshit,” Musk shared the key details.