MrBeast Scores Elon Musk As Paying Twitter Subscriber

Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, has gone viral again, this time on Twitter. Why? Because Elon Musk just became one of his subscribers on the platform.

What Happened: On Wednesday, MrBeast took to Twitter to announce that Musk is now paying him $5 a month as a subscriber. He shared a screenshot along with the tweet saying, “Who’s really in charge now.”

Elon Musk is now paying me $5 a month, who's really in charge now pic.twitter.com/VwO3Jl6ro3
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) April 18, 2023

MrBeast also changed his bio and wrote, “Twitter Super Official CEO.”

While many users applauded MrBeast, others, like social media commentator Matt Navarra asked why everyone who follows Musk got this notification.

why we all got that MrBeast notification

Elon's growth hacking.

He created a new twitter notification "someone you follow subscribed to…"

He then Subscribed to MrBeast

135 million people who follow Musk get new notification https://t.co/lnANTxKVeK
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) April 18, 2023

Navarra further deduced that Musk is doing MrBeast a favor by subscribing to him as it gives him a big-name creator on Twitter.

Elon done MrBeast a favour me thinks

He needs a big name creator on this platform…

Given him a subscriber boost with a notification to 300m users … in return for him doing more stuff on Twitter, I bet
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) April 18, 2023

Another Twitter user thanked Musk for paying $3, to which the Twitter CEO replied, “Spend it wisely.”

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