Elon Musk / Mark Cuban
Elon Musk and Mark Cuban.
  • Mark Cuban asked Elon Musk for help because he's losing followers on Twitter.
  • The "Shark Tank" star said he starting paying for Twitter Blue after losing up to 1,000 followers a day.
  • Twitter Blue subscribers are meant to get more visibility and promotion on their tweets.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban told Elon Musk he's losing hundreds of Twitter followers a day despite paying for a Twitter Blue subscription.

In a tweet directed at the Twitter CEO, the "Shark Tank" star said he had losing between as many as 1,000 followers every day. 

"To counter this I went Blue² thinking it gave me some preference and would help retain or grow users. Any suggestions?" he wrote in a tweet on Friday that's had 8.5 million views.