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 in 2020
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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The user who invented the hashtag has reportedly left Twitter, saying the company 'deserved more dignity and consideration than it's received in the last six months'

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Elon Musk and a Twitter logo are seen in this illustration photo in Warsaw, Poland on 30 November, 2022. The revamped Blue Twitter subscription might not be available as in-app purchase on Apple devices when it eventually relaunches. The decision presumably was made so that Twitter can dodge Apples 30 percent cut of App Store purchases. While Elon Musk is publicly tweeting his displeasure with Apple, it appears he wants to avoid having to pay Apples fees.

Elon Musk joked that if aliens came to earth he would get the most-liked tweet of all time, and that he's 'very familiar with space stuff'

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Elon Musk looks at his phone with a display of a space capsule entering orbit behind him.
Elon Musk.

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CEO goes viral telling employees to stop asking how to stay motivated without bonuses: 'Leave pity city'

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MillerKnoll CEO went viral over comments she made about bonuses.
MillerKnoll CEO went viral over comments she made about bonuses.

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Elon Musk says news organizations should only tweet 10 stories a day, after he tweeted more than 100 times over the weekend

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Elon Musk and the New York Times' office.

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