[JohnnyB]

One of Musk's earlier tweets about what he would like to see implemented on twitter regarding payments was that having a blue checkmark would be something you pay a small fee for. This checkmark would still be different from those of recognized public figures, but would be intended to be affordable for people while being cost prohibitive for bot farms that open thousands of accounts. Not sure this really makes a lot of sense to me, and would seem like implementation wouldn't be easy without also making it cost prohibitive for a lot of regular people from poorer places in the world, but it's an idea he has tweeted about recently.

Also, Twitter already does have a paid version called Twitter Blue. It allows for easier thread reading, elimination of ads, tweet editing, verified ownership of NFT profile pictures, and a few other things I think. I don't know what usage stats are for it, and haven't used it myself, but it was introduced for around $4/month a few months ago.