New Delhi: After dealing with criticism for his plan to cost Twitter customers USD 8 a month to get or preserve a verified account, Tesla CEO Elon Musk comes up with a cryptic tweet that one will get what one pays for.
Speaking to Twitter, Musk wrote, “you get what you pay for” and labeled it as a “spoiler alert” for Twitterati. He additional mentioned, “Being attacked by each proper & left concurrently is an effective signal”.
“Twitter is just essentially the most attention-grabbing place on the Web. That’s why you’re studying this tweet proper now,” the Tesla CEO added.
Twitter is just essentially the most attention-grabbing place on the Web. That’s why you’re studying this tweet proper now.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
Quickly after Musk introduced his plan for a brand new Twitter model, folks expressed their disappointment over his resolution.
Musk’s plan to cost Twitter customers to get a verified account rapidly prompted outrage and disbelief amongst some longtime microblogging web site customers. Nonetheless, the backlash didn’t have an effect on Musk.
On Wednesday morning, he took to Twitter and reaffirmed his stance on the matter at hand.
“To all complainers, please proceed complaining, however it’s going to value USD 8,” he tweeted.
“Completely stole thought of charging for insults & arguments from Monty Python tbh,” Musk later added.
Completely stole thought of charging for insults & arguments from Monty Python tbh https://t.co/oFKRyp3BS7
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
A day in the past, Musk introduced what amounted to a Twitter plus paid subscription service that can enable customers to submit lengthy movies, and audio and in addition fight “spam and rip-off.”
“Twitter’s present lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Energy to the folks! Blue for USD 8/month,” he tweeted.
In the meantime, Musk who closed the USD 44 billion twitter acquisition deal and took management of the micro-blogging platform has modified his bio to “Twitter grievance hotline operator.”
The Twitter Blue subscription launched extensively nearly a yr in the past as a solution to view ad-free articles from some publishers and make different tweaks to the app, reminiscent of a unique colour dwelling display icon.
In April, Twitter accepted Musk’s proposal to purchase and take the social media service non-public. Nonetheless, Musk quickly started sowing doubt about his intentions to observe by way of with the settlement, alleging that the corporate did not adequately disclose the variety of spam and faux accounts on the service. In July, in a shocking flip of occasions, Elon Musk who had lengthy been exhibiting his curiosity to purchase Twitter terminated the deal. The Tesla CEO did so by alleging that Twitter violated their mutual buy settlement by misrepresenting the variety of spam and faux bot accounts on its platform.
After Musk put out the deal termination announcement, the market noticed a pointy decline. Later, Twitter sued Musk accusing him of utilizing bots as a pretext to exit a deal. Once more, final week, Musk confirmed that he would transfer ahead with the Twitter buyout on the initially agreed value of USD 54.20 per share.