Today, Meta has started selling its new subscription service, Meta Verified, in beta to Facebook and Instagram users in Australia and New Zealand, after Mark Zuckerberg announced the service yesterday in a post.
The company said in a press release published on its website that users in countries where the service is available can now obtain it for
a monthly subscription of $ 11.99 for subscribers via the web, and $ 14.99 for subscribers via Android and iOS.
Meta Verified subscribers get several features that include the account verification tag, additional protection against impersonation of verified account holders, priority access to technical support service, highlighting verified accounts in search results and comments, and finally what the company said are “exclusive features that allow the user to express himself in a way Distinctive”, such as providing subscribers with exclusive sticker images that they can use in Facebook posts and Instagram stories.
The company confirmed that there will be no change to the previously documented accounts, during the trial period of the service, and added that it plans to provide other subscription offers that are beneficial to everyone, such as content makers, companies, and users in general.
And (Meta) clarified in its post the requirements for account verification according to the new service, which is that the account must be active and include a previous record of publications, and that the account holder should not be less than 18 years old, with the submission of a personal proof document in which the name and photo match the account information on Facebook or Instagram.
Facebook's move is similar to what Twitter did last year when it launched its paid documentation brand (Twitter Blue) Twitter Blue. Subscribing to the Twitter service includes a wide range of features such as seeing fewer ads, the ability to customize the appearance of the application, a special tab to see the most popular articles, and the ability to post long tweets of up to 4000 characters.
Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, had announced that the company plans to cancel the old authentication tag to keep the authentication restricted to subscribers of the paid service, which Facebook did not say in its announcement, but it alluded to that possibility by saying that the old authentication service will remain unchanged “during the period.” Experimental".ش
