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Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter
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| Author Stephen King is once again heckling Elon Musk. This time it is over the Twitter name change to "X." Credit: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images |
Stephen King is once again publicly calling out Elon Musk and how he's running X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
What is King blasting Musk for this time? The "X" name itself.
"This X shit’s got to go," posted King on Thursday. "#ChangeItBack"
And by "change it back," King is referring to the social media platforms former name, Twitter.
King has been a frequent critic of Musk since his takeover of the platform last year. In fact, this isn't even the first time he mocked Musk's name change. However, this time King is specifically calling on Musk to change the name back.
Unlike Musk's many other critics, however, the X owner has previously signaled that he's a fan of King and his work. This has previously led to back-and-forth exchanges between the two on the platform.
King's words appear to have some weight with Musk, as he previously haggled with King publicly on the platform as what a fair price would be for X Premium, the paid subscription service then-known as Twitter Blue. Musk offered an $8 per month price to King as a counteroffer after proposing a higher number. King scoffed at the idea of paying for a blue verification badge at all, which led to Musk gifting the author with an entirely free Twitter Blue subscription.
Musk is obviously not going to change his mind on the "X" name because of this call-out from King. However, perhaps Musk will reply and provide King with some sort of counter offer like he did the last time. Maybe King, and only King, will be able to keep his twitter.com profile URL if and when Musk ever gets around to finally moving the site to the X.com domain name entirely?
Topics Social Media Stephen King Twitter Elon Musk
Just give it back to Jack Dorsey, no strings attached! At least it still worked and was fun to use.
ReplyDeletehow long ago was that? Because it was certainly a dumpster fire before Musk bought it.
Deleteit definitely was when the tRumpers were going mad, but we were still able to get breaking news as it was actually happening...and long before the TV reported it.
Deletewe certainly received a lot of fake news...
Deleteit was a woke CIA and FBI funded cesspit 😂 how on earth can you say that it was working. Just because it supported your commie far left views does not mean it was working.
DeleteI'm not a fan of his stuff, but typically agree with him. In this case, he needs to move on to another platform if he dislikes X, changing the name back wouldn't do anything.
ReplyDeleteNo way he'd do that, he's in love with the letter x beyond any rationale
ReplyDeleteSo
DeleteDUH !🤷♂️
DeleteImagine caring this much about that platform.
ReplyDeleteFor the love of God please let's just settle on Ex-Twitter 🙏 😏
ReplyDeleteThey King has spoken!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone call it X
ReplyDeleteno
DeleteI call it twatter
Delete“Censor me harder daddy”
ReplyDeleteWho is Stephen King again? Oh I remember, Musk paid for his Blue subscription to X
ReplyDeleteStephen King a great writer of horror books and many times a millionaire. I hope he leaves X and create an account in Threads.
DeleteI wish he does too. Unfortunately he doesn’t want to. Whoever doesn’t want to be on X, should leave rather than suggesting changes to the owner who actually paid for his Blue subscription. Musk is so generous!!
DeleteI left Twitter and my 5689 followers the same day Musk took over.
Deletegood for you! I hope Stephen King leaves too and shuts up
DeleteYou sound like a Musk-bot.
DeleteMr King is the most successful and profilufic horror story author and has 2 other great books out there. And you ask who is Stephen King? He fed up with the X.
DeleteHere to stay: Elon Musk considers AI to be one of the greatest threats to humanity. He also wondered whether this thing could be controlled at all, but then had to laugh: After all, that was his biggest concern when reopening X for exclusively ardent advocates of democracy...
ReplyDeleteMaybe Elon could try X Twitter and X Pay and so on. Like Meta Facebook, Meta Whatsapp, etc. and Google Mail, Google Calendar, etc. Or Twitter by X. Best of both worlds. And getting people liking the brand again.
ReplyDeleteA rose is still a rose.
ReplyDeleteHe can't tell and dictate people of what to do because he doesnt like it . He can only give his opinion of not liking it.
ReplyDeleteHey Steven King, I love your character Holly Gibney and couldn't wait to read Holly, but two hours into it I had to stop. It is the scariest book you have written by far.
ReplyDelete*****Spoiler alert****
The story was set in a world where everyone actually believed all the Covid lies put out by the government. At first I thought It was a dream sequence by a covidiot but it just kept going on. People were dying left and right. Everybody that was safe wore 3 masks and had like 10 Covid boosters. I knew that this was a world where the government had actually completed their CIA mind control. It was a world where Elon Musk hadn't bought Twitter away from the FBI and CIA . In this world all the people kept chanting "masks work, masks work" and "we must kill the anti-vaxxers before they kill us" while walking around like brain dead zombies. I couldn't go on. Even my hero Holly Gibney a highly intelligent woman had been brainwashed. It was sooo scary.
Twitter is over.
ReplyDeleteBetter still have EGO Musk sell it to someone else who can run it better 🤷♂️
ReplyDeletewho's offering to buy it?
DeletePeople still use this?
ReplyDeleteAgreed X sounds so stupid!!
ReplyDeleteWhy? Who cares apart from him, clearly.
ReplyDeleteIt won’t change other than the name.
Sorry Mr King, but your speaking out to a Dumb MUSK Wall, where HE "thinks" he's brilliant!
ReplyDeleteLet’s not forget, Stephen King is a fictional writer. Fictional has nothing to do with reality and how any social media company works. 🤣
ReplyDeleteI hate x
ReplyDeleteHe’s like trump… never listens.
ReplyDeleteLaughing, nobody calls it X, we all call it Twitter and we know what it means! 😂
ReplyDeleteOh Queen ( not worthy of a king ) is someone to listen to. NOT! 😂
ReplyDelete🙄🤔 I suppose you (think ?) in your own mind that you're more of a legend 🤷♂️
DeleteIt's quite clear that you strongly support this Queen. Your loyalty is unmistakable. Chubtard, choose your path, either step away or gracefully roll along. Opt for whatever requires less physical strain on your body.
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DeleteNO!
ReplyDeletenow move along.
I don't think anyone cares what this crazy old man says anymore.
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Can’t sell a book, now he’s a victim🙄
ReplyDeleteBack to the FBI led woke mind virus?
ReplyDeleteEverything the Radical Right doesn't like is a "woke virus" 🙄
Deleteradical right? By this do you mean anyone who doesn’t want to kill all Jews.
DeleteReading comprehension is not your thing.
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Deletethat’s the combination your own friends hate.
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ReplyDeleteCompletely agree!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, this dude a year ago. LMAO
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1587042605627490304
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DeleteSays someone who only success is writing fictional stories. Stay in your own lane. 🤷
ReplyDeleteAnd what is yours? Stephen King books has sold by the billions! Which as made him a billionaire too!
DeleteAge hasn't been kind to Stephen King's brain, obviously.
ReplyDeleteWho?
ReplyDeleteAs if the name is its biggest problem. More like Elon has to go lol
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason Stanley Kubrick trolled king whilst making the shining
ReplyDeleteAnd yet he used his book to make the film.
Deleteand yet, he obliterated the car that was going to be originally the one he drove as a sign of defiance, as one of Kubrick's documentaries.
DeleteIf you read books that has been made into films, not a single one is true to the books.
DeleteI don't think Kubrick considered him the best of buddies 😂
DeleteWell, that's another story..
DeleteWho cares got rid of it haven’t needed it once!
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ReplyDeleteCan’t teach s as n old dog…
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