Elon Musk Calls Kathy Griffin’s Bluff: “Twitter’s current lords and peasants system is bullsh*t, power to the people, blue for $8/month”

Elon Musk called Hollywood star Kathy Griffin and author Stephen King’s bluff and announced a massive change at Twitter. He said:

“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.  Power to the people! Blue for $8/month. Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity

“You will also get: Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam. Ability to post long video & audio. Half as many ads.”

Kathy Griffin was not happy she would be forced to pay Musk. She said:

Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.

Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

“I don’t think it’s that blue check people are too cheap to pay 20 bucks a month, I just don’t wanna give any money to Elon musk and the Saudi family.

“I’ll stay until the midterms. In the meantime, I’m signing up for all other sites until we can settle on one. Look, I like you guys and all, but not $20.00 a month like. Inflation! I am enjoying tick-tock. I will look into blue sky and I think there’s two other ones people are talking about.

When asked why not just refuse to pay Elon Musk, Kathy said:

“Well, but then my acct and all blue checks will be cloned etc. Nonstop swarming. Having to disavow tweets attributed to me. No thanks. Plus musk is 🤮.”

Stephen King threatened to leave the platform if forced to pay:

“$20 a month to keep my blue check? F*ck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.” When a Twitter user told King he could afford to pay $20 a month King said: “It ain’t the money, it’s the principle of the thing.”

Musk responded to King: “We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot entirely rely on advertisers. How about $8?” Musk then added: “I will explain the rational in longer form before this is implemented. It is the only way to defeat bots & trolls.”

You will also get:
– Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam
– Ability to post long video & audio
– Half as many ads

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022