Twitter's methods for persuading users to subscribe to Twitter Blue, from the paid blue checkmark and custom app icons to the edit button feature and longer tweets up to 25,000 characters, did not always sit well with the majority of its users. The blue check, for example, used to confer special status on any account bearing the mark, but it is now a commodity that anyone willing to pay $8 per month can obtain. And the edit button has always been regarded as a basic option that should not be restricted behind a subscription. But Elon Musk's Twitter never seems to run out of controversial features, and the most recent one — introduced late last week — unsurprisingly ruffled some feathers.
