Elon Musk is 'personally' paying for some celebs' Twitter Blue ticks | Mashable.

Elon Musk is 'personally' paying for certain blue ticks to troll celebs

This includes Stephen King's checkmark.

When you have money to burn, you pay for other people's checkmarks. Credit: NurPhoto/GettyImages

You can't make this up: First, Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk said the company would remove legacy blue checkmarks for users who didn't cough up $8 per month for the Twitter Blue subscription tier. It took a while for the new, paid-for checkmarks to arrive, but the legacy checkmarks remained. Now, Twitter has finally killed off the blue checkmarks for non-paying users, but not all of them, as some celebrities still have the checkmark despite not paying(opens in a new tab) for them.

Turns out, Elon Musk is paying for these checkmarks out of his own pocket.

The man confirmed it himself on Twitter(opens in a new tab), admitting that he's personally paying for the blue ticks of William Shatner, LeBron James, and Stephen King. We checked and indeed, all three accounts still have their blue checkmark.

Twitter checkmarks
You see three Twitter accounts, I see $24 per month being drained from Elon's pocket. Credit: Stan Schroeder/Mashable

Musk did not elaborate further on why he chose to pay for the checkmarks, and it's unclear whether he plans to pay for more.

It may be Musk's idea of a joke, given that all three explicitly said(opens in a new tab) they would not pay(opens in a new tab) for the checkmarks. In a recent tweet, King said he hasn't subscribed to Twitter Blue or given his phone number to Twitter; previously, he said he won't pay for the checkmark(opens in a new tab) out of principle(opens in a new tab).

It could also be Twitter's new monetization model:

  1. The company charges for checkmarks

  2. People refuse to pay

  3. Elo

  4. n Musk steps in with his own money

  5. Profit!


For most of us who don't subscribe to Twitter Blue, though, the checkmarks appear to be gone. At least now there's hope that a benefactor will descend from above and cough up the $8 per month instead of us.

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Comments

  1. He doesn’t want to lose high profile users. He’s already alienated too many people.

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  2. “don’t refuse the blue checkmark or next time i’ll give you a ride on space x.”

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    1. Thanks Dear for your comments I really appreciate❤ and Dear if you wish to talk we me send me a friend request and DM me privately❤❤❤❤

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  3. Private property gaming at its best.

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  4. This should sound ridiculous, but it rings true.

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  5. Paying for? Or not charging?

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  6. He isn’t trolling anyone. Just trying to keep some credibility to his $44 billion damaged toy by keeping certain celebrities in

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  7. Wait! I thought everyone left Twitter ages ago...

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  8. He's such a creep.

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  9. I didn't really like Elon Musk all that much until I realised how much he makes various libtards and mashable
    readers cry.
    All power to the guy.

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    1. Actually it was good business for Facebook, the TrumpTards always are here.

      https://media.tenor.co/RemosTlwgKQAAAAC/stormy-daniels-donald-trump.gif?t=AAX5439_iZMIWolxfQHLMQ&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s&itemid=11299762

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    2. 🙄🤔Which just proves your ignorance & stupidity of political bias !? Typical of the CONservative mentality, ideology from any country !

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    3. it’s really entertaining. They take the time to inform you how much they dislike someone. Embarrassing 😂

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    4. He is a joke and I'm glad that he is losing a ton of money and they his rocket blew up, that was glorious
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    5. pretty lame gimmick you got going on there

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    6. I'm sure he cares about your opinions Lisa, you should make time in your obviously busy life to post even more 👌

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    7. I'm sure the Democrats care about the opinion of a LowIQanon member of THE MAGA CULT.
      https://media.tenor.co/u7DOacci_70AAAAC/falcon9-space-x.gif?t=AAX545p8nrUIWoVCAQe_9A&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s&itemid=12084037

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    8. We don't care about Trolls from the UK. Worry about your own problems.
      https://media.tenor.co/CSddCqPLBJ8AAAAC/rolblox-dbz.gif?t=AAX545_imnUIWoimvwySTw&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s&itemid=18225026

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    9. the powers not working very well so far lol.

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    10. he's still worth 175 billion so I'm sure he'll be okay 👍

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    11. so will we but we still love watching him bleed billions lol

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    12. I'm sure he appreciates your interest.

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    13. I'm sure liberals care about yours lol

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    14. well you apparently do 😂

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    15. you apparently care about theirs lol

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    16. Laugh. He makes us laugh 😂. He’s such an unprofessional man-child.

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  10. I need to pay my -100 first lol waiting for my bene then laters

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  11. How is he trolling by paying for something he can leave on for free with a click of a button?

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  12. He managed to break "freedom"

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  13. Go away .never ending nightmare ..

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  14. https://giphy.com/gifs/filmeditor-movie-comedy-3o84sv2u7KSHKbwPza

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  15. I thought your news division was shut down because it
    wasn’t profitable?
    Why are you still posting drivel?

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  16. He owns the company. He didn’t have to pay anything just click a button.

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  17. So certain people get actual "free" free speech? Makes perfect sense.

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    1. So a blue tick mark makes your speech more free?
      It doesn’t change what you can say there Mr three names.

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  18. Now he's paying for friends who don't particularly like him?! I hope it's just worth it for him not to lose their traffic? Otherwise, he's just humiliating himself, repetitively, trying to play the cool kid, because he's mad he's become an old man.

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    1. you should listen to some long forum interviews he’s done before forming an opinion

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    2. you should stop making idiotic assumptions about someone you don't know. I have an opinion based on the facts I do know. Please, mansplain about your idolization of Elon elsewhere.

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    3. suggesting you learn more = getting offended. Nice 😂 your comment was so unintelligent that I just recommended that you learn a little nore

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  19. This is giving me, "You can't break up with me because... I'm breaking up with you!" vibes.

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  20. Lebron, Stephen King and William Shatner

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  21. Destroying Twitter might be his best legacy.

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  22. Outstanding move!

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  23. Jokes on him cause it is his money he is wasting. And he’s already losing a lot

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  24. The MOST PATHETIC Billionaire in the world.

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  25. Why does it come off less as trolling and more like being a big loser?

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  26. he is cuuckoo...happens when you have lots of money and nothing else to do

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  27. https://media.tenor.co/DbA0zn4QikYAAAAC/pointing-laughing.gif?t=AAX53Dw1hm8A8kkORwumxg&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s&itemid=7517608

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  28. Spoiled brat prepubescent behavior. I guess he skipped adolescence much like the tangerine twat.

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  29. "Please use my platform. Please 🥺"

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  30. Ah. Paying for digital materials. How dumb do these billionaires think us folks are. Like it costs money to replenish the blue check inventory

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  31. Musk. The very epitome of maturity…

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  32. He can’t stop surprising us

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  33. Why does anyone use twitter? It's for dimwits.

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  34. He is such a weirdo. He’s just proving out how he ruined twitter. Such a baby man. 🙄

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  35. Not worth it even when free!

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  36. Love it. 😂😂

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  37. Like trump was giving away his salary…. Right

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  38. Yall loved Twitter when it was a platform for babies with wet nappies... now grownups run the show yall peeppee yourselvs. Welcome to the grownup world... MAGA

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    1. nobody ever loved twitter. Its one of the least used social media apps. Freaking snapchat has more users.

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    2. your comment proves you are no where close to living in a grown up world let alone in reality .....

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    3. what a hurtful thing to say

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    4. you spent the hurtful statement.

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    5. nonsense... and by the way its untrue that nobody ever loved Twitter. Don, Elon and I, what about you?

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    6. have never been on Twitter so there is some truth lol

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    7. neither have I🤣

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    8. then how exactly do you know grown ups are running the show now 🤣🤣

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  39. Twitter is over. 🥱

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  40. I am here for the irrational, jealous hatred.
    Carry on

    https://giphy.com/gifs/nsa-spying-pigeon-YN6qUXj4HdXoY

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  41. Let's make this clear musk is not of sound mental mind and behavior and if he was a smart man he would stay out of the news and he would still be able to manipulate our political system like the wealthy and corporate heads do but nobody would know so he's always out in public showing you how corrupt these people really are and our political system is too because of them and ourselves where we know this to be true but yet we just figure it's part of the way the government works have a nice day

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  42. A perpetual middle schooler.

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  43. Poster child for Narcissistic personality disorder. If people would stop worshipping false idols maybe they would also stop electing them.
    MakeAmericaGagAgain 🤢

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  44. Trolling? Sounds more like desperation.

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  45. How old is he again?

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    1. Old enough to own the most advanced rocket systems on the planet.

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  46. Hes not doing it to troll..hes doing itnto try and save some big contributors from bailing and making him lose even more billions from his latest failed venture. Lmao.

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  47. Good for him. Troll hard 😁

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  48. Let's play the game.. 🙂

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  49. Calling this trolling seems oddly like their very very effective boycotts conservatives are known for 😂😂😂

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  50. Who care, go Musk make money an waste it on what you want who cares, you go go

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  51. “Personally” paying…sure Jan 🤣😂

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  52. Musk is just another version of trump

    But more successful in business.

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  53. A fn moron for sure.

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