Boos rain down on Elon Musk at a Dave Chappelle comedy present

SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk was loudly jeered by the gang at a particular Punchline Comedy Membership occasion on Sunday night time (Dec 11) after he was invited on stage by comic Dave Chappelle. 

Boos rained down on the Tesla and Twitter CEO after Chappelle launched him as a visitor and informed the Chase Heart crowd to “make some noise for the richest man on the planet”.

Chappelle later joked: “It seems like a few of these individuals you fired are within the viewers”, referencing the controversy surrounding the billionaire’s takeover of Twitter in October and the next firing of fifty per cent of the tech agency’s 7,500-strong headcount.

“It is nearly as if I’ve offended San Francisco’s unhinged leftists… however nahhh,” Musk tweeted after the occasion.

On Monday, Musk admitted he was stunned by the backlash, though he tweeted that it “was 90 per cent cheers and 10 per cent boos (besides throughout quiet intervals), however, nonetheless, that’s a number of boos, which is a primary for me in actual life (frequent on Twitter).”

Musk additionally relaunched a subscription service for Twitter on Monday after a maiden try noticed an embarrassing spate of fake accounts that scared advertisers and forged doubt on the positioning’s future.

The primary attempt final month got here simply 10 days after his US$44 billion takeover of the influential platform and mass layoffs, together with groups of staff moderating content material.

RELAUNCH OF TWITTER BLUE

The relaunch of Twitter Blue comes because the SpaceX proprietor has stepped up his tweets endorsing right-wing causes, together with opposition to using gender-neutral pronouns and america authorities’s response to COVID-19. 

The subscription service prices US$8 per 30 days for customers accessing Twitter on the net and US$11 if signing up on an Apple device. The additional value could possibly be defined by Musk’s anger that Apple prices as much as 30 per cent service payment on its app retailer.

The preliminary rollout of Twitter Blue brought on an uproar when many pretend accounts popped up pretending to be celebrities or firms and Musk’s staff was pressured to tug the plug on the scheme.

This time, the corporate beefed up its verification process with a evaluate required by Twitter earlier than receiving the coveted blue test mark.

Checkmarks at the moment are gold for companies and, later within the week, will develop into grey for presidency organizations, the corporate mentioned.

A blue checkmark on an account, which signifies it has been verified by Twitter, was beforehand free however reserved for organizations and public figures in an try to keep away from impersonation and misinformation.

In response to the positioning, new subscriptions to Twitter Blue have been at the moment out there solely in america, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, “with plans to broaden”.