Horror novelist Stephen King says he will refuse to pay for a monthly subscription to keep his verified status on Twitter, but Elon Musk responded that the company’s grisly finances give him no choice but to charge a fee.
King, the author of bestselling classics such as “The Shining,” “Salem’s Lot,” “Misery,” and “Pet Sematary,” took to Twitter on Monday and made clear his feelings on Musk’s reported plan to begin charging verified Twitter users a monthly fee.
“$20 a month to keep my blue check?” King tweeted. “F–k that, they should pay me.”
“If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron,” King added, referring to the infamous energy company that went belly up in the early 2000s.
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