LeBron James Says He’s Too Cheap To Pay For Twitter Blue Check

LeBron James — a billionaire — says Elon Musk cannot get him to shell out $8 a month to maintain his Twitter verification … admitting he is just too low cost to cough up the dough.

The new Twitter CEO lately introduced main modifications to his social media platform … saying any “legacy” account that wishes to maintain its blue badge must pay beginning April 1 — with a number of exceptions to main firms.

The transfer has been met with hesitancy for a number of causes — one, the date falls on April Fools Day, and Musk is understood to be a troll … so there’s nonetheless hypothesis it may all be a silly prank. Two, most individuals, LeBron included, do not assume it is price paying practically $100 a 12 months simply to be verified.

“Welp guess my blue ✔ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5,” LeBron tweeted on Friday.

Of course, simply because LeBron’s filthy wealthy does not imply he is obligated to pay up … but it surely’s fairly attention-grabbing he would not care about sustaining his official standing, contemplating he was focused by trolls when Musk first determined to present blue checks to anybody who paid for Twitter Blue again in November.

The finish outcome was an account pretending to be LeBron making a commerce request from the Lakers … which had NBA Twitter working wild for a break up second.