{"id":88480,"date":"2022-11-03T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88480"},"modified":"2022-11-03T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:24:16","slug":"a-blue-tick-fee-of-8-was-announced-by-elon-musk-and-memes-ensued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/a-blue-tick-fee-of-8-was-announced-by-elon-musk-and-memes-ensued\/","title":{"rendered":"A blue tick fee of $8 was announced by Elon Musk, and memes ensued&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keeping blue ticks on Twitter requires users to pay, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Twitter&#8217;s spam problem can only be solved with a subscription model, according to the billionaire entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk said the price for keeping the blue check would be adjusted based on purchasing power parity, but the price for keeping the white check was fixed at $20 at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen King tweeted that Musk had &#8216;reduced&#8217; the rate to $8 after a tweet by the celebrated author. Netizens have already expressed thanks to Stephen King for saving some of their money if the subscription model does come into effect, and we won&#8217;t even get into how he managed to bargain with Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement of the $8 fee was much discussed by netizens. It was criticized by some, while others warned of massive chaos if it were implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a month-long battle, Elon Musk has finally taken control of Twitter. In a dramatic entrance, he was holding a sink at Twitter&#8217;s headquarters. The microblogging site&#8217;s CEO, Parag Agarwal, was fired after Musk took over the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping blue ticks on Twitter requires users to pay, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Twitter&#8217;s spam problem can only be solved with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88482,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88480\/revisions\/88482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}