Author Stephen King and billionaire Elon Musk have locked horns since the announcement of paid subscription for the blue tick. Continuing their feud, King has tweeted that Musk reminded him of Mark Twain’s character Tom Sawyer, who gets a number of other boys to whitewash a fence, an unpleasant task, by making the work seem to be extremely absorbing.

In a recent series of tweets made by Stephen King, he wrote that Musk made him think of Tom Sawyer, who was given the job of whitewashing the fence as punishment. Tom conned his friends into doing the chore for him and getting them to pay for the privilege, said King, adding that, “That’s what Musk wants to do with Twitter. No, no, no.”

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In a previous tweet, made by King, he appreciated Musk for his visionary Tesla cars and said that he too brought a Tesla and has peven upgraded it. King, however, dislikes the autopilot feature of the Tesla.

King and Musk are at daggers drawn ever since Musk announced that a fee would have to be paid by the Twitter users to keep their coveted blue tick.

An online negotiation sparked, when Musk said that the Twitter users will now pay a $20 fee to continue on with their blue ticks. King replied to Musk saying that he would leave this micro-blogging website, if the rule gets instituted.

Musk then brought the fee down to $8, stating that the company needed to pay the bills somehow, as Twitter cannot depend entirely on advertisers.

Richest man on earth and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has recently acquired Twitter in a $44 billion deal and has renamed his bio to Chief Twit. Since then, his decision to sack the top officials of the company including CEO Parag Agrawal, and charging fees for the coveted blue tick is sparking controversy.

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On Monday, renowned author, Stephen King came out on Twitter and blasted Elon Musk’s decision to impose that verified people pay for subscriptions if they want to retain their blue tick in Twitter’s yet-to-be-implemented Twitter Blue model. Stephen King in his tweet dismissed the 20-dollar-a-month subscription and also added that Twitter should pay him instead of it being the other way around. The author further added that if the 20-dollar subscription model gets instated, he will leave Twitter.

After Stephen King’s Tweet, Billionaire Elon Musk responded to him and stated that Twitter needs to pay bills hence, such a paid subscription model is being introduced. Musk also added that Twitter can’t totally rely on its advertisers either. The funniest bit of Musk’s Tweet was when he went on to somewhat negotiate with Stephen King as he asked if 8 dollars per month would do.

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After the conversation-spat between Elon Musk and Stephen King went viral, many users came forward to remark on the incident as one user wittily questioned Elon Musk and remarked that Musk paid 44 Billion dollars for a company that can’t pay its bills, questioning his business sense. Another user added to the amusement of the predicament as he wrote that Stephen King can get Elon Musk down to 2 dollars if he plays his cards right.

Even Indian film critic and public figure, Kamaal R Khan added to the conversation as he wrote and directly asked Elon Musk to send him the link where he can pay for the blue tick for a 5-year subscription altogether because he doesn’t have time to pay for the subscription every month.

After taking over the company, Billionaire Elon Musk introduced new plans for how Twitter will function from henceforth. The revamp of Twitter has been quite uncertain for a long time, however, it might come to conclude as reports suggest that remodel of Twitter will be known as Twitter Blue which will include a paid subscription for Blue tick, add free interface, Long-form video, and audio posting.

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