India's 'first' Twitter user undecided on whether to pay for blue tick

Naina Redhu says she joined social media platform in 2006 after getting an invitation email

Amid the controversy over Twitter charging $8 for verifying an account with a blue tick, the social media platform’s likely first user in India said she is yet to decide whether she will pay for the subscription.

Twitter’s chief executive officer Elon Musk has announced the pay-for-verification feature as part of his plans to turn the company profitable. The subscription to get a blue tick for $7.99 was launched on Saturday for iOS users in