Ok Wait What About $8 Instead? Please?
That gets us all the way through the weekend. But Musk was still hard at work, if that’s what you call Tweeting. Among the detractors who took to Twitter to complain about the proposed $20 price for verification was Steven King. We could paraphrase, but the man is an author. As King put it:
$20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 31, 2022
Musk, whose feelings seemed a little hurt, responded in the comments, bargaining down the price to $8 and all but begging Twitter users to get on board with his plan:
We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
Elon Musk, master negotiator.
