Musk on Tuesday said he planned to charge $8 a month for Twitter’s subscription service, called “Twitter Blue,” with the promise to let anyone pay to receive a coveted blue check mark to verify their account. In a tweet, the world’s richest man used an expletive to describe his assessment of “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark.” He added: “Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
“This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators,” he added. The remarks highlight both how tenuous some of Musk’s initial plans for Twitter may be and also the urgency he faces to boost the revenue and profit for a company that lost money for most of its history. Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion, an amount that he admitted is “obviously overpaying” for the company. He also lined up a substantial amount of debt financing to pay for the deal.
Then they should vote red
Bye bye
Facebook gonna charge too
I’ll gladly pay the $8, I’ll cancel my Disney subscription to pay for it.
Not paying! So it's a monthly charge for verified accounts, are they going to verify each account on a monthly basis? Repeated verifications...
Time to charge all of these politicians and news outlets to manipulate human society for their own selfish greed and vanity...YES!
elonmusk did the old trick of saying he will charge an exorbitant amount ($20) then drops it to a lower ($8) amount hoping to create a sigh of relief that it isn't as bad only no one is falling for it.
Most Twitter users could care less about that blue check mark. It's Millionaires and politicians complaining about paying a Billionaire $8 a month to keep a blue ✔️ next to their name. SMDH, y'all have a country to run and this is what has y'all upset.
Red check marks are free.
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As in red as republicans yes.
Good I hope they all vote red😁
And this how the rich get richer. Well sir this nana can hardly survive with 2 incomes. I will happily leave twitter..
Is Serious competition being developed for a Twitter alternative?
Just wait for the 'X the everything app' it is said to be a mimic of Wechat. 🤷♂️🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️ I will certainly not use..... I'll skip that entirely. There's madness about apps, everything you do, needs an app? 🤷♂️it's just silly and non sense, sorry to say.
I’ll just close my Twitter account
It is his private business. He can do what ever he wants. Pay to play. Thats ok!
Get over it. My God, people can’t afford their groceries to feed their families and these out of touch elitists are complaining about $8 for special privileges…
He was going to make it $20 got called a fool and then said $8. There has to be a reason to make a profit off this site or else he just wanted a huge propaganda platform to feed his ego and bids for power... gasp.
Uh huh. Haven't heard anything from Twitter yet. Sure this isn't just another hit piece against Elon?
This segment is -unwillingly- hilarious. The CNN brain trust in action.
Do you guys really think he isn't gonna get back his billion dollars under 6months max?!!!
How are we to know who’s an actual account now or just a troll giving him $$
Elon is playing CNN like a fiddle and it is absolutely so much fun to watch liberals take his bait!
By users here, you mean entitled “influencers” right?
Can I counter offer my gas price ? Or maybe milk?
I wonder if the camera lens broke after taking this picture.
Only 300k have blue check. bots rule!
It was always going to be $8...oldest trick in the Book...
he will not get my money that can help get back the money he spent buying Twitter Company
All for the money n if he can find more, he wants more.
PATHETIC
Looks like LizTruss' U-turn on mini-budget. Don't these people have advisors to run their ideas through? Or do their overinflated egos make them think that all their ideas are brilliant? Poor Twitter !
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Esto se llama tantear... Lanza una primera opción y tu te vas haciendo la idea... Y te planteas ¿pago? Después si son 8 crees que es barato... Pagas. En fin yo lo tengo claro, No pago
Look at what you're doing and ask yourself if its journalism or opinion. Opinion is CNN and its not news. Nobody wants your opinion, so maybe try and do some news once in a while.
It’s gone up in price 😆 👍🏾
Shameful just shameful from Musk world's richest person
CNN You should be close down for fake, false reporting 😂😂😂🤟✌️ You're worse than the Democrats 😂😂😂
FOH 💩💩💩
He probably intended charging $5 and that’s how he ended with $3 more. He’s a business man.
I’d pay $240 a year for a blue checkmark, but I spend all my time online. 🤷🏿♂️
But CSR from Elon enterprise is almost zero in Africa Kenya is planning to Shut down twitter. We cannot allow enterprises to continue operating while giving nothing to the community!
That $8 makes sense. The $19 option is like milking your neighbors cow
He just wanted to see how all you bozos would act...he saw just what he wanted to see.
Is CNN free?
Just hang out for a week guys he'll offer to pay you $8 and in a month he'll up it to $20.
Wondering if $8 can be 50 cent army style answer to capitalism. Like GOP or DEM or for that matter Amazon or Walmart paying 1000 people to gain 1,000,000 identities to nudge votes, products, or ideas, etc. in desired direction? Let alone AI?
He should charge $8 for hate speech instead.
Charge anything, I'm gone
i hope bots get the verification mark
So you have a problem if Elon is giving it at discounted rate. You want us to pay full $19.99?
How about 8 lol. The negotiating skills of a child
Tesla shareholders:
I wish to not be verified. I would prefer to stay independent.
I wonder what‘s next on the agenda of Elon vatnik ? I bet he will announce his candidacy in the presidential race for the republican by Xmas MAGA2 🤣
I think this is all a big game to him.
He's like a London Spiv, selling cheap shoddy items out of a suitcase at a low price. A Del Boy without the charm and heart.
Well GEEZUS KRYSTE!!
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Nope I wouldn't give him 1 Penny 🙌🏿
He's literally going into people's accounts removing their followers and verification checks. The POS needs to get arrested for pushing disinformation propaganda, violating his agreement with investors & SEC
How much did the government pay under the table before to control the speech of the platform is more interesting.
please be our voice MahsaAmini
It’s kinda funny, after all this hype of him taking over & saving this app, & now that he has he doesn’t seem at all interested in leveling the platform for everyone & would rather make ppl pay to elevate their influence. 😂🤭🤡
Great so he will loose everything , eBay = Facebook market place . Twitter = ?
Happier by the day that I decided against buying a Tesla.
I'll pay it :)
$8 is nothing he can get $1000 per year easily. All the ones with the checked mark knows the real value. Fame
He's a very busy person.
Narrator: “CNN never realized the price was always going to be $8.”
He was never gonna charge $20 it was a classic snake oil salesman tactic of overcharging and then offering lower price to make it seem like a bargain. $8 is still way too much.
Maybe $0? He’s so out of touch about what pple can afford 🤦♀️
I got $8. I’m Dwayne The Rock Johnson now.
What a tool.
For those thinking he is trying to eliminate bots… How many bots get a blue check mark? A verified account is the opposite of a bot. But now bots can easily buy their blue check mark for $8/m therefore you won’t be able to trust if the account is real or not.
It's his business now, let him do what he thinks is right for the company's future. Trust me if it's successful, Zuckerberg will follow suit and do the same in Meta.
I knew he just wanted to make more money. That's the potential he saw with twitter.
CNN is still in business?
$8 - regular speech only $10 - add cuss words $12 - add homophobic and trans slurs $14 - add misogyny $16 - add hate speech $18 - add death threats $20 - the works - anything goes, free speech a la Musk
Yep
You mad bro?
That will possibly be the last time with Twitter as for me.
Not
Try paying me
I like how he's making decisions. No month long debate by a bunch of folks sitting in a meeting room getting overpaid to do very little, with no guarantee of success. Ask directly, get feedback, adjust. Keep going elonmusk .
Free speech for $8.00 a month
The Bad Doctor.
Man trying to find a way to make back 44 billion dollars
Definitely $0.00. Elon makes no cents.
Platform for Freedom of speech 🤔rich just want money 💰 👎
What, is he running out of money?
I think it should be $100 a month. No, wait, $1000 per day.
His money will go down the drain 😂😂😂😂
Great idea delete the algorithm matrix make the game fair again
Free speech only 8 dollars now for limited time!
Who cares about a checkmark that much? Does it really even matter?
Shame on you if don't Please pay attention to the news of Iran and the crimes committed by the agents of the Islamic Republic, who beat a protesting young man severely with a baton and then run over him with a motorcycle and finally shoot him.
He just doesn't get it.
How about zero! And give journalists who have applied numerous times — like me — the check,
How about I pay nothing and I sit here and laugh at this fool and the other fools who are his pawns.
Why? U are rich, man!
Or like me, zilch
Musk: Can I get $20. Stephen King: How about no. Musk: What about $8. Stephen King:🥱
He ain’t getting a dime from me.
Cool the billionaire wants our money to prove we are who we are. No thanks.
Just realising he bought a lemon.
Netflix is better than paying for this ass hole
“with the promise to let anyone pay to receive a coveted blue check mark to verify their account” What’s the point if anyone can have a check mark, elonmusk?
Let's wait for Jack Dorsey's Bluesky launching so we can all leave Twitter.
I believe any charge per month would discourage some people from using the service. I for one do not support monthly charged apps so it would be a shame but I'd be off ...elonmusk
Clown News Network
elonmusk Fuck, NO!
When he does this a lot of people are going to get scammed and hes going to get sued.
I thought we set the bird free huh 🤔😂
He can shove it up the wee hole in his deck end.
How about $1.99/Month including Twitter Blue.
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Running those bot accounts are gonna be expensive now 🤣🤣🤣 The woke left are gonna suffer from chest pains much
He needs more money for Zip2, SpaceX and Tesla.
$8 a week! 😂
If he does what he said, and eliminates the bot/ scam accounts. I think $8 is money well spent.
🤡
How about zero $$.
Lol
I don’t need Twitter!
ELONMUSK .. shame
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