Twitter Blue users paying $8 to stay verified hit by '#BlockTheBlue' campaign

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Twitter suspended the @BlockTheBlue account.

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Elon Musk spoke about crystal balls, bank lending, self-driving cars and lithium refineries this week. Here are his 10 best quotes from Tesla's Q1 earnings call.

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Elon Musk.

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Why one investor says Elon Musk's reign as CEO of Tesla, Twitter, and SpaceX may be 'entering the end game'

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Elon Musk.

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An elite soccer player criticized Elon Musk as 'some crazy dude' after Twitter took away his blue checkmark

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Manchester City players Riyad Mahrez and Aymeric Laporte celebrate with the Premier League trophy, while Elon Musk – in Halloween garb – shrugs.
Riyad Mahrez and Aymeric Laporte celebrate winning the Premier League last year, and Elon Musk.

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BTS, one of the biggest celebrity accounts on Twitter, has refused to pay Musk $8 for a blue tick

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Elon Musk and BTS.

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Elon Musk is paying for a few of his favorite celebrities to stay on Twitter Blue, even after they dissed the new blue checks

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Elon Musk controls SpaceX and is the CEO of Twitter.
Elon Musk controls SpaceX and is the CEO of Twitter.

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Elon Musk's wealth drops by nearly $13 billion — the biggest slide this year — after Tesla's share prices slumped and SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded

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Elon Musk's net worth fell $12.6 billion on Thursday.

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Twitter users including Justin Bieber, Bill Gates, and Kim Kardashian are seeing their blue checkmarks disappear as Elon Musk charges $8 a month for verified accounts

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Elon Musk's Twitter had said it would remove blue legacy checkmarks on April 20.

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A look back on Elon Musk's middle-school humor: from jokes about 420 and 69 to 'Titter'

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Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum's 21st annual Halloween party at Sake No Hana at Moxy Lower East Side on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Elon Musk has a number of go-to jokes involving 420 and 69.

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An AI researcher hired to build Elon Musk's ChatGPT rival was arrested in a 'domestic violence incident'

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Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco, California

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