How to get a Twitter blue tick cheapest in the UK? You can get it for £7 a month, not the £11 a month that you’ll pay via Apple.
Yes, you can save £48 a year on your Twitter blue tick. Read on to see how.
Why do people pay for Twitter? There are a few benefits of paying for Twitter Blue aside from getting your verified blue tick (or blue checkmark as they say in the US).
Twitter Blue is a subscription service offered by Twitter that provides a range of additional features and benefits to its users. Some of the benefits of Twitter Blue include:
- Ad-free experience: Subscribers of Twitter Blue can enjoy an ad-free browsing experience on the Twitter app, which can enhance the overall user experience and reduce distractions.
- Undo tweet feature: Twitter Blue offers an “Undo Tweet” feature, allowing users to retract a tweet within a short window of time after posting it. This can be useful in case of typos, errors, or if you change your mind about a particular tweet.
- Bookmark folders: With Twitter Blue, users can organise their bookmarked tweets into separate folders, making it easier to categorise and access saved content. This feature is particularly beneficial for users who heavily rely on bookmarking tweets for future reference.
- Reader mode: Twitter Blue includes a reader mode that enables a more streamlined reading experience by removing unnecessary clutter, such as ads and other distracting elements. This can be especially useful when reading long threads or articles shared on the platform.
- Dedicated customer support: Subscribers of Twitter Blue gain access to dedicated customer support, ensuring faster response times and assistance with any issues or queries they may have. This prioritised support can be helpful for users who rely on Twitter for their professional or business needs.
- Exclusive features and experiments: Twitter Blue subscribers often receive early access to new features and experimental functionalities that are being tested by Twitter. This allows them to stay ahead and explore new tools and features before they are available to the general public.
- Supporting the platform: By subscribing to Twitter Blue, users directly contribute to supporting the platform financially. This can help Twitter continue to invest in improvements, new features, and maintaining a free service for non-subscribing users.
But how to get the Twitter blue tick cheapest in the UK?
The trick of how to get the Twitter blue tick cheapest depends on two things: what platform you subscribe on, and if you’re paying VAT or not.
First, it’s cheaper to pay annually rather than monthly – so pay annually.
When you subscribe via your iPhone, it’s done via the Twitter app on Apple and billed through Apple. And for that, Apple wants their commission. Apple takes a commission from any transactions via its platform. It’s similar if you subscribe via Android, Google wants their bite of the transaction too.
At the time of writing, subscribing via an iPhone costs £114.99 a year annually (£9.58 a month) or £11 a month if paid monthly.
However, if you eschew Apple (or Google) and subscribe via a desktop computer on a regular browser, you are removing Apple (or Google) from the equation. So that becomes £84+ VAT annually, which is £100.80, or £8.40 a month.
But you want to get the Twitter blue tick cheapest, so you can go a bit lower still by removing the VAT.
In Europe, Twitter is financially domiciled in Ireland.
That means if you supply a business name and a VAT number during checkout, they remove the VAT. Why? Here’s the legal bit on that:
In Ireland, if a company provides a valid VAT number to another company, it may be exempt from charging VAT on certain transactions. This is because of the reverse charge mechanism, which is a system used to shift the responsibility of reporting and paying VAT from the supplier to the customer.
The reverse charge mechanism is typically applied to business-to-business transactions within the EU and often the UK. When a company provides its VAT number to an EU company, it signifies that the transaction is a B2B transaction, and the reverse charge mechanism can be applied.
In other words, give Twitter a VAT number and business name during checkout on a desktop, and the checkout system removes the VAT.
So the £100.80 comes down to £84. Which is £7 a month.
There is no visible connection between the actual Twitter user name and the business that is apparently paying for it. There’s no change of user name or anything like that – this is just a taxation and checkout technicality. Not related to the account at all.
If you have a business, you’ll get a Twitter receipt by email that is very general in nature. It’s just a receipt/invoice from Twitter. It might be advertising or anything. Nobody will care.
But I’m not VAT registered or a business?
Twitter doesn’t care if you are using your business name or personal name to checkout – Elon just wants the cash.
Twitter doesn’t care what name is on the card you use to checkout – Elon just wants the cash.
The VAT number is verified as being real during checkout, they may even match it to a business name, but they don’t match it to a payment method or account data.
Let’s imagine for a moment that you naughtily used a VAT number from a local business for these purposes. I doubt anyone would know, notice or care. It’ll never be matched up anywhere. Nobody cares. It’s just another cross-border transaction. And it’s £84, not £84m.
Not that we would suggest doing anything naughty or technically illegal of course.
But hypothetically, if you used a business name and VAT number from the local hardware store, a local petrol station, or perhaps even a Tesco receipt, nobody is going to notice or care. Give the system a VAT number and off your checkout basket goes the VAT. It’s as simple as that.
Don’t imagine there are teams of blokes checking every reverse charge VAT checkout between the EU and the UK, there just aren’t. It’s all computerised – give the computer a number and it’s happy. The end.
And that is how to get the Twitter blue tick cheapest, at just seven quid a month.
If you’ve already previously subscribed on a phone, unsubscribe via Apple or Android, wait for the blue tick to vanish at the next billing date, do as stated above, and your blue tick will be back within the hour.
Word is spreading already.
How to get a Twitter verified blue tick in the UK for just £7 a month. Not the £11 a month Apple charge: https://t.co/O5wIdOE5hI
— Olga (@cheshireolga1) May 9, 2023
Now you’ve saved £48 a year on Twitter, why not save some more by getting rid of your TV Licence?
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The prices quoted in this article are correct at the time of writing.