(Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc. cannot rely entirely on advertisers, new owner Elon Musk tweeted in response to author Stephen King’s criticism that the platform reportedly plans to charge users about $20 a month to keep their Blue Check verification.
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Twitter is looking to raise its optional Twitter Blue monthly subscription price to $19.99 from $4.99, and launch new features including paid user verification, the Verge reported late Sunday.
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Musk, who recently changed his Twitter bio to ‘Chief Twit’, has now changed it to ‘Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator’.
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