Elon Musk, Twitter’s CEO, paid for some celebrity accounts to keep their blue check mark, leaving app users conflicted between thinking Musk is totally behind it and the fact that celebs are paying for it despite claiming they won’t.
Egyptian comedian Mohamed Henedy previously tweeted about Elon Musk blocking him, because of a tweet of his, in which he protested the removal of the blue mark.
“After serving 10 years on Twitter, the immoral person tells me that I need to pay him money for a blue sign. We replaced the sign with a little boy serving as a golden verification mark,” said Henedy, after adding a golden baby emoji next to his user name.
Once Musk blocked him, Henedy noticed that the blue mark showed up on his account again! which he addressed in another tweet, feeding his fans more details on his fresh drama with Musk.
“After the tweet I shared, I found that the verification mark appeared again and that I’m subscribed to the Twitter Blue service .. although I did not subscribe .”
The famed comedian referred to Musk as ‘Abu Nasab’ in the tweet and revealed that Musk paid for his subscription out of his own pocket, thanking him for the kind gesture.
Twitter users are now questioning the whole purpose of Musk removing the blue checkmark in the first place, now that he is bringing it back without celebrities paying for it.
For the record, many celebrities left the social media platform as soon as Elon Musk declared that the mark will require an 8 dollars monthly subscription.
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