Elon Musk and Stephen King are feuding over Musk’s proposed $20 month-to-month price for verified customers.
King took to social media this week to lament Musk’s proposal to cost verified Twitter customers $20 a month to retain their blue checkmark. King debated the ideas of charging verified customers and threatened to depart the platform ought to such a price be imposed.
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“$20 a month to maintain my blue examine?” King tweeted on Monday. “F**ok that, they need to pay me. If that will get instituted, I’m gone like Enron.”
“We have to pay the payments by some means! Twitter can not solely depend on advertisers. How about $8?” Musk replied on Tuesday. “I’ll clarify the rationale in longer kind earlier than that is applied. It’s the solely option to defeat the bots and trolls.”
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Joel M. Petlin, a verified Twitter consumer and superintendent, identified the humour in watching Musk (price roughly $200 billion) and King (price reportedly $500 million) squabble over a distinction of $12.
These opposing Musk have identified how verification helps the integrity of knowledge on the platform. A blue checkmark helps customers simply decide if the knowledge being offered to them is from a verified supply.
Musk just lately acquired Twitter for $44 billion.