Twitter users told King that he’s wealthy enough to pay a $20 verification fee, to which the horror novels writer replied: “It ain’t the money, it’s the principal of the thing.”
A fee for a blue tick is one of several controversies that have cropped up after Musk took ownership of Twitter on Thursday evening. The others include the firing of several top executives and the CEO, reports about laying off 25% of staff, and an increase in hateful content on the site.
