{"id":149385,"date":"2022-11-03T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/turkeys-president-says-he-wants-to-discuss-twitters-8-blue-tick-fee-with-elon-musk-to-see-if-he-can-avoid-paying-it-a-report-says"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:23:01","slug":"turkeys-president-says-he-wants-to-discuss-twitters-8-blue-tick-fee-with-elon-musk-to-see-if-he-can-avoid-paying-it-a-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/turkeys-president-says-he-wants-to-discuss-twitters-8-blue-tick-fee-with-elon-musk-to-see-if-he-can-avoid-paying-it-a-report-says","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s president says he wants to discuss Twitter\u2019s $8 blue tick fee with Elon Musk to see if he can avoid paying it, a report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turkeys-president-says-he-wants-to-discuss-twitters-8-blue-tick-fee-with-elon-musk-to-see-if-he-can-avoid-paying-it-a-report-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president of Turkey said on Wednesday that he might speak to Elon Musk to negotiate a way to opt out of paying for a proposed $8-a-month Twitter verification fee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/erdogan-says-he-could-discuss-charge-twitter-blue-check-with-elon-musk-2022-11-03\/\">Reuters<\/a> reported the news, citing an interview with Turkish broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTErdogan\/status\/1587877940221837313?s=20&t=kzPXQTflMKSvjGcWLglcZA\">ATV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recep Tayyip Erdogan told ATV he was considering talking to Musk about the monthly $8 subscription, which would give users a blue checkmark, the ability to post long-form video, priority in search, and fewer ads, per Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Turkey said on Wednesday that he might speak to Elon Musk to negotiate a way to opt out of paying for a proposed $8-a-month Twitter verification fee. Reuters reported the news, citing an interview with Turkish broadcaster ATV. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told ATV he was considering talking to Musk about the monthly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}