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Shockingly Elon Musk going to charge eight dollars a month for twitter’s verification blue checkmark

Twitter’s new owner, billionaire Elon Musk, has announced that the verification blue checkmark in front of a user’s name that verifies an account will charge eight dollars a month, sparking outrage and distrust among some longtime users. Musk, the richest person in the world, bought Twitter on October 27 for a whopping $44 billion. He also fired four top executives at the social media company*, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal director Vijayi Gadde.

“Power to the people! Blue for $8 a month,” he tweeted on Tuesday, adding that the price is adjusted by country in proportion to purchasing power parity. With that price, he said, users will also get priority in replies, mentions and searches, which he says is necessary to beat spam/fraud, as well as the ability to post long-form video and audio, half as many ads and paywalls. bypass for publishers willing to work with a social media company. Musk, 51, said monthly payments from users for blue ticks “will also provide Twitter with a source of revenue to reward content creators.”

Under the name, there will be a secondary label for someone who is publicly active, which is already the case with politicians, he added. A blue checkmark means that a particular account is verified “because* it’s notable in government, news, entertainment, or another specified category.” Twitter implemented the system in 2009 after facing a lawsuit accusing it of not doing enough to prevent fraudulent accounts.

However, Musk’s decision to charge for blue ticks has not gone down well with many longtime users, including author Stephen King, who has nearly seven million followers on the platform. “$20 a month to keep my blue check?” he tweeted on Monday, followed by expletives. “They should pay me. If they implement it, I’m out like Enron.” Later, in response, King wrote, “It’s not about the money, it’s about the principle of the thing.”

Musk responded to King with his most explicit endorsement yet of the proposal to charge for account verification. “We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter can’t rely entirely on advertisers,” he said. “What about $8?” Kasturi Shankar, a blue-tick user whose Twitter bio describes her as an actress, activist, lawyer, writer, quiz-taker, dancer, foodie and “traveller,” wrote: “Way to dilute your blue-tick verification. The real people who matter will leave, taking with them the users you need to justify the platform. When businesses and media buy blue ticks, they will seek to monetize their tweets in return. Twitter will become a billboard.”

Another user named David Rothschild asked: “So the more money you spend the higher your speech gets?” “Faux populism from billionaires who just want to cut taxes and regulations for the wealthy while crushing workers’ rights to the basic social security and bargaining necessary to be healthy, productive and have meaningful opportunity is a particularly outrageous type of faux populism,” he said. a user who has the blue handle @DavMicRot. Another verified user, who has the handle @Rubiu5, asked: “What happens if a random user pays $8 and changes his display name to Elon Musk, uses the same profile picture and starts tweeting as he*s you?” There are verified checkmarks so people know they are following a real person, the user pointed out.

Responding to the barrage of criticism, Musk said Twitter speaks to the inner masochist in all of us. “To all complainers please continue to complain but it will cost $8,” he tweeted.In the following tweet, Musk shared a link to a popular British sitcom called Argument. In a well-known sketch from the comedy troupe Monty Python, the character played by Michael Pali is seen flying into a rage after paying for a five-minute row with John Cleese. “Totally stole the idea of charging for insults and arguments from Monty Python tbh,” Musk wrote.

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