https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1587042605627490304 and subsequently https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144

So... nothing?

If you click on his checkmark it tells you that he's a legacy verified account and does NOT pay for Twitter Blue.

Sorry, I guess I thought Musk had already removed legacy checks. The whole thing seems a little silly. King obviously doesn't need Twitter, but I'm sure he receives more value out of Twitter than $8/mo even so (or whatever they're charging now).

Twitter sells user eyeballs to advertisers. The user’s are there to look at posts from people like King.

I’m sure pre-Musk Twitter got far more than $8/mo out of King posting on the site.

I'm sure Twitter gets more value out of King than $8/month.

Seems like and interesting research problem. Too bad the researchers won’t be able to afford the API access cost to research things like this ;)

I'm sure they do, but wasn't that also a part of Twitter Blue, a revenue share, or have they not followed through with that either?

But accounts like his are what _drives_ people to Twitter. I already left months ago, but I'd definitely be leaving if the company that profits off of me wants to charge me for the privilege.

...we don't know what that means.