'Didn’t ask for blue tick, take it away': Martina Navratilova slams Elon Musk

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said she did not ask for the blue tick of verification on Twitter soon after the social media giant’s new CEO, Elon Musk, declared an $8 per month fee to verify users' accounts.

“I didn’t ask for the blue check mark- it just showed up one day, so feel free to take it away. My peeps know it’s me,” Martina Navratilova told Musk on Twitter, replying to his tweet announcing the fee.

Asked by a Twitter user if losing the blue tick would bother her, Navratilova, who has over 4.19 lakh followers, said, “Paying for the blue tick is what would bother me- hence I don’t need one.”

The Tesla and SpaceX chief argued the plan to charge users for the blue tick would solve the platform's issues with bots and trolls while creating a new revenue stream for the company.

“Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is b*****it. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month,” Musk, 51, tweeted, adding that the price is adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity.