Elon Musk I buy Twitter just over the weekend, but on Monday he surprised everyone by naming himself the sole director of the social media company. It later emerged that the CEO would have plans to charge $20 a month for those verified. Twitter users were not amused by the report, specifically the famous writer Stephen King.
the author of It’sa tweeter with more than 6.9 million followers, responded to the report with a very upsetting tweet.
“20 bucks a month to keep my blue popcorn? Fuck they should pay me,” she said. “If that is instituted, I will go like Enron.”
Musk quickly responded to King by saying that he had a larger plan to collect the monthly fee and that this would help him eliminate bot accounts from Twitter.
According to various reports, Musk has been firing top executives. Monday the Washington Post quoted sources as saying the new CEO’s layoff plan was underway, targeting 25% of Twitter’s workforce.
Stephen King and others are starting to leave Twitter
Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been fraught with controversy. Several celebrities and top executives have begun to leave the social network due to the changes and the excess of control that the richest man in the world is exercising over the platform.
Personalities like Shonda Rhimes and Toni Braxton and executives like NBC executive producer Ken Olin have already closed their accounts. For its part, General Motors came to suspend advertising on Twitter to understand its new model.
“We are collaborating with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under its new ownership,” the company said. “As is the normal course of business with a significant change to a media platform, we have temporarily paused our paid advertising. Our customer support interactions on Twitter will continue.”
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