Blue, Twitter’s paid subscription service, has been making the platform’s “status indicator” blue tick available to everyone for years, in addition to 1080P video uploads and priority comments. The subscription service, which is available in many countries around the world, was also made available in our country last week at a ridiculous price.
According to the information that has emerged today, Elon Musk unintentionally broke the laws of many EU countries because of his Blue subscription. If Musk doesn’t come back from his mistake, the company could face a very serious penalty.
Twitter Blue’s price is shown missing in EU countries
Twitter Blue is promoted at its price excluding taxes, just like other services within the borders of the USA. In the last step on the purchase page, the amount of tax to be paid is added. As absurd as it sounds, this system is used in almost all digital and physical payments in the USA. Moreover, the number of countries using this system does not exceed one finger.
However, Twitter, which offers the Blue system to European countries at tax-free prices, has inadvertently violated the laws of 27 EU countries. Although Twitter’s move is “fraud” by law, EU officials think it may be a misunderstanding.
European Twitter users, who saw that they would pay an extra $20 in annual subscriptions, rebelled against the situation, while the authorities warned the Twitter authorities that the advertised price should be changed to the price including taxes. Although this is an error in pricing, failure to fix the problem means “consisting of defrauding users by remaining silent”, according to EU officials. That’s why Twitter could get in trouble because of this simple mistake.
In its research, BusinessInsider examined Blue subscriptions in the UK, Germany and Belgium using VPNs and confirmed that taxes are not included in the prices.
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on the matter. However, if Twitter doesn’t update prices, it could face serious penalties for fraud and attempts to deceive users.
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