HOWARD KURTZ: Can Musk milk Twitter users for cash while banning ‘hate and harassment’?
was floating the idea of charging Twitter users $20 a month for"blue check" status when Stephen King offered a rather forceful dissent.
As one wag observed, here was the world’s richest man negotiating with a wealthy literary icon over saving 12 bucks a month.So it goes, as the sole owner of the influential social media platform tries to figure out how to pay the bills, having reluctantly forked over $44 billion inThe erratic innovator has made mistakes, including tweeting a link to a false and despicable conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi that he soon deleted while offering no apology.
For a mere monthly fee of $8, he says, folks will get priority in searches and mentions, and the ability to post long videos. AND IF YOU ACT NOW, you’ll get half as many ads.
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