Billionaire entrepreneur and &#8220;Chief Twit&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-blames-republicans-for-paul-pelosi-attack-elon-musk-has-other-ideas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> took a moment early on Tuesday to begin negotiations on a potential blue-check fee with horror author Stephen King.
King began the conversation on Monday with his reaction to a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-to-start-charging-users-high-monthly-fee-for-verification-report-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> suggesting that Musk planned to monetize Twitter&#8217;s verification badges — to the tune of $20 monthly for anyone who wanted to keep the little blue check mark — and he made it clear that he was not the least bit interested in ponying up the dough.
&#8220;$20 a month to keep my blue check? F*** that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron,&#8221; King tweeted.
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$20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.
&mdash; Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1587042605627490304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
Responding to someone who called him &#8220;cheap,&#8221; King added, &#8220;It ain&#8217;t the money. It&#8217;s the principle of the thing.&#8221;
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It ain&#39;t the money, it&#39;s the principle of the thing.
&mdash; Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1587063061067751424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
Musk, who has not publicly confirmed reporting from The Verge regarding the blue check fees, appeared to confirm that some fee was being considered — and could be subject to negotiations — when he responded to King in a tweet of his own.
&#8220;We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?&#8221; Musk suggested.
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I will explain the rationale in longer form before this is implemented. It is the only way to defeat the bots &amp; trolls.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587314744754683905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I will explain the rationale in longer form before this is implemented,&#8221; Musk continued. &#8220;It is the only way to defeat the bots &amp; trolls.&#8221;
Musk doubled down on his $8-per-month suggestion a short time later, tweeting, &#8220;Twitter’s current lords &amp; peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.&#8221;
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Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587499283573530625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;You will also get: &#8211; Priority in replies, mentions &amp; search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam &#8211; Ability to post long video &amp; audio &#8211; Half as many ads,&#8221; Musk continued.
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And paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with us
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587500624098246656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;And paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with us,&#8221; he concluded.
Twitter first launched verified accounts in 2009 in an effort to build trust among users and as a response to celebrities who claimed that people were building fake accounts to impersonate them.
&#8220;The goal,&#8221; according to a <a href="https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/elon-musk-suggests-8-dollars-per-month-twitter-verification-backlash-1235419369/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Variety, &#8220;was not to generate revenue but to increase trust in the social network by providing a visual signifier that notable account holders, such as celebrities, politicians, companies, entertainment brands, news organizations and other accounts &#8216;of public interest&#8217; were the real deal and not impostor or parody accounts.&#8221;
Musk has been promising — since he first hinted at buying the social media platform — to improve the Twitter user experience, saying that he would &#8220;make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.&#8221;
Thus far, however, users are unsure that a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/musk-faces-widespread-backlash-over-his-new-plans-for-twitter-a-terrible-idea-on-so-many-levels/">$20 monthly fee</a> is the way to go about achieving that end.

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