http://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-reveals-what-8-month-will-get-blue-check-twitter-user-1756135 > Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur who recently purchased Twitter, is working to sell the site's verified users on the idea of paying the long-free service for the right to hold onto their eponymous "blue check" status. > After widespread criticism prompted Musk to nix a previous proposal to charge the site's "blue checkmark" users $20 per month to retain their verified status, the Tesla CEO proposed a reimagined verification model on Tuesday—this time at a reduced, $8 per month rate—that included numerous features intended to end Twitter's so-called "bullsh*t" lords and peasants' system between verified users and those who are not.