In EU countries that use the euro currency, Twitter Blue has anof 8 euros, or about $8.50, for the web app — a little more than the $8 price in the US. The advertised annual price for most EU users is 84 euros, or about $88.50, versus $84 in the US.
That means Twitter users in Europe wouldn't know the subscription could actually cost an extra $20 a year until the Stripe checkout page automatically adds the tax after a second or two. The website in Germany initially showed 84 euros for an annual subscription, but that rose by 20%, or 16.80 euros, to 100.80 euros, at checkout. The final price wasn't shown anywhere prior to checkout.
A spokesperson for the European Consumer Centre in Ireland — part of a network of offices that are designed to protect consumers and that are co-funded by the European Commission — said they reached out to legal staff in ECCs across the EU, and got responses from Belgium, Germany, Croatia, Ireland, and Malta, after being contacted by Insider.
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