Twitter CEO Elon Musk mentioned on Friday that he is for my part paying for Twitter blue subscriptions of a couple of celebrities who had declined to pay for the subscriptions themselves.
“I’m paying for a few personally,” mentioned Musk in a reaction to @TitterDaily.
Musk additionally took the names of the stars in certainly one of his tweets and mentioned, “Just Shatner, LeBron and King.”
The information of Elon Musk for my part paying for some celebs got here out after one in every of them Stephen King (who’s an American novelist) took to the social media platform and discussed how his Twitter account mentioned that he had “subscribed to Twitter Blue” even if he did not.
To this Musk had answered, “You’re welcome, Namaste” which clarified the truth that Musk had supplied him with Twitter Blue subscriptions even if he had now not paid for it himself.
Twitter introduced its blue checkmark device in 2009 to be able to distinguish the authenticity of notable accounts. Back then until this time govt officers, and different dignitaries together with celebrities didn’t must pay for it. However the micro-blogging web page had on Thursday mentioned that it used to be now proscribing the “legacy verified checkmarks” to just those that paid for it.
Following this many notable personalities together with Indian celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan and govt officers and politicians akin to Yogi Adityanath and Rahul Gandhi misplaced their verified standing.