Twitter will cut the cost of Blue tick for online users to $7.

According to a person briefed on the plans, Twitter Inc. intends to reduce the cost of its Twitter Blue membership package from $7.99 to $7 if users purchase it through the website, and from $11 if they do it through its iPhone app.

Lower price for the website is likely to encourage more customers to join up there rather than on their iPhones, according to the article, which suggested that the move was a backlash against the 30% cut that Apple Inc. collects from profits from apps on its operating system.

The 30% fee that Apple charges software developers for in-app purchases was one of many complaints Musk outlined in a series of tweets he sent to the company last week..