Kangana Ranaut backs Elon Musk’s $8 a month Twitter Blue service, says Aadhaar card users must get a blue tick

Billionaire Elon Musk, who recently acquired social media giant Twitter, has been facing a lot of flak for his decision to charge $8 a month from verified users who have blue ticks.

Despite mounting backlash and pressure,Musk reiterated on Saturday the Twitter Blue charges. “Trash me all day, but it’ll cost $8,” he wrote.



Many celebrities such as Gigi Hadid, Amber Heard, Rhonda Shimes and Stephen King, among others, decided to quit the micro-blogging platform amid rising uncertainty.

However, Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut - who was banned from the platform last year for her controversial comments - had nothing but nice things to say about the new Twitter owner.

On Sunday, she took to Instagram to extend her support to Musk’s decision to charge $8 a month from accounts who are verified.

Ranaut said that having to pay a monthly fee for the Twitter Blue service will only help build the company’s integrity, which will ensure the user data is protected.

"Also paying a certain amount to maintain a Twitter account will only help it build its integrity, there are no free lunches in this world, have you ever thought all these platforms that you access freely how do they sustain themselves? They don't just sell data, they make you a part of them, influence you and then sell you (your voice, consciousness) every single minute of the day, and that's why there is no free will in such platforms, so it's not a bad idea to try to build a self-sustaining social media platform … it is easy to arm-twist a bankrupt company even if it intends to hold a high-value system sooner or later it will have a price tag," her lengthy Instagram Story read.

Calling it an ‘intellectually and ideologically-motivated’ platform, the ‘Dhaakad’ star said Twitter was the ‘best’ social media platform in today’s time.

The actress also shared her two cents on the current Twitter norms for verifying a user. According to her, anybody with an Aadhar card ‘must get’ a blue tick as everyone has an ‘authentic existence’.

"I could never understand the idea of verification that some selected few get, as if others don't have an authentic existence, for example, I will get verified but if my father wants a blue tick then 3-4 clowns will dismiss his very identity as if he is living some illegal life...everyone who has an Aadhaar card must get verified, simple as that," she added.

Recently, Ranaut has expressed her desire to return to the platform through her fans’ posts.

In May 2021, Kangana's Twitter account was permanently suspended for ‘repeated violation of Twitter rules’. The suspension came after the actress had made an incendiary post, claiming that the victory of the Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress in the Assembly election of West Bengal had led to violence.

Last week, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla also sacked roughly half of its workforce on November 4 with an email to staff explaining the cuts were ‘necessary to ensure the company's success moving forward’. He also said that employees who exited were “offered three months of severance, which is 50 per cent more than legally required.'

Backing his decision, the world's richest man said that he didn’t have much choice as the platform was ‘losing over $4M/day’.