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Hey everyone, just a heads up that there is some swearing in this episode. Okay, here's the show.

Steve, can you tell me who you are and what you do?

My name is Stephen King. I'm a writer, freelance writer, novelist, short story writer, and sometimes SAs and that's what I do.

That's who I am and what I do.

And you have 7.1 million Twitter followers last time I checked.

If you say so.

Stephen King, yes, that's Stephen King. Agreed to talk to me because he, like many Twitter users, had a somewhat confusing weekend online.

Late last week, Twitter began removing verification badges, aka Blue Checkmarks from Legacy Verified Accounts and only keeping them for people who paid $8 a month for Twitter Blue.

Except Stephen never paid.

You tweeted on April 20th my Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven't, my Twitter account says I've given a phone number. I haven't.

What do you make of this state of affairs?

Well, I don't really understand it. I mean Elon Musk after I said that, he tweeted back that thank you and then the little praying hands thing that made me feel good.

I mean, this is really kind of weird. He gifted me this thing. But it said on the original Blue Check that I'd actually approved of it or I had paid for it or given a phone number and none of that stuff was true.

And he's not alone. A slew of celebrities, LeBron James, Green Larson and William Shatner, among others, still have Blue checks. None of them have subscribed to Twitter Blue either.

Elon Musk has implied that he's personally paying for them, even if they don't want him to.

Some people have theorized that accounts with over a million followers are automatically getting Blue checks. That seems to be what happened to John Favreau, who has 1.4 million followers.

I did not know. I did not, I did not subscribe because I do not want to give Elon Musk any money.

John co-founded Quick and Media, host several podcasts they are and used to work for President Obama. And his checkmark just appeared, though he did think about getting rid of it.

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