Musk Haggles With Stephen King On Verification Cost

Yahoo News reports:

Bestselling writer King tweeted on Monday he would be “gone like Enron” if Twitter made him pay $20 to keep his blue checkmark. He added, “Fuck that, they should pay me.”

In response to King’s tweet, Musk said: “We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers.” The billionaire made a suggestion to King that the Twitter verification fee could be $8 a month.

“I will explain the rationale in longer form before this is implemented. It is the only way to defeat the bots & trolls,” Musk said in a follow-up tweet. Removing bots on the site was one of Musk’s plans when he first offered to buy Twitter in April.

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We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022