After billionaire Elon Musk took control of Twitter, several changes were made to the app, one of which is a $8 subscription for Twitter Blue.
And now, Instagram is likely to follow the path of Twitter. The online photo sharing app is reportedly planning to bring a paid subscription model for its users.
According to leakster and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram is working on a subscription plan which includes the blue badge.“Instagram is working on a subscription plan which includes the blue badge," he said on Twitter.
According to a report by Live Mint, Paluzzi also shared screenshots in the app's code with TechCrunch. The screenshots include a line that says “IG_NME_PAID_BLUE_BADGE_IDV" and “FB_NME_PAID_BLUE_BADGE_IDV." While one can explicitly see words like Paid, Blue and Badge in this line.
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