I dont have to pay to do it."
It will take more than Trump supporters and ticked-off critics to frightenStephen Kingaway from Twitter.
“Yeah, it’s gotten very strange,” King saidin a new interview with Slate.
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I don’t mind.
I don’t block them.
I think I want to know what they’re doing.
But, you know, I get lots of tweets every day.
No, I can’t see myself leaving Twitter…
So, yeah, I’m going to stay."
My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number.
I haven’t."
Musk responded to the tweet, saying, “You’re welcome, namaste.”
“Well, I don’t really understand it,” King said in the Slate interview.
“I mean, Elon Musk, after I said that, he tweeted back.
And I thought to myself, ‘This is really kind of weird.’
And none of that stuff was true.”
The novelist also made it clear that he would not consider paying for Twitter Blue.
“No,” said King.
“The thing is, I do Twitter mostly for fun.
I post pictures of my dog.
I rail against Trump not that anybody pays attention…
I don’t have to pay to do it.
And this whole thing has just sort of devolved into something that’s kind of a head-scratcher.”
“$20 a month to keep my blue check?”
“F— that, they should pay me.
If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.”
