• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

After Many Accounts Impersonate Musk, Musk Bans All Accounts That Impersonate Others

November 7, 2022 by Deborah Bloomfield

After taking over Twitter and announcing that users can be pay to be “verified” (perhaps without any identification check at all), Elon Musk appears to be slowly learning the hard way why Twitter implemented verification in the first place.

Shortly after taking over the platform, Musk announced that users would be able to get verified for $20 a month, before being haggled down to $8 by author Stephen King.

Advertisement

One problem this raises, as well as making it more difficult to know if you are getting information from a trusted source, is that it makes it more difficult to know if someone is the person who they are claiming to be. If anyone can buy a blue tick (which used to mean that an identification check had taken place), what is to stop someone from purchasing one and then pretending to be someone else?

Impersonation was actually why Twitter started the verification process in the first place. In 2009, baseball manager Tony La Russa sued Twitter, claiming that a fake account in his name and impersonating him had begun posting offensive and derogatory comments. Despite “strong indications” that the account was a parody, Twitter settled the lawsuit, and began work on a verification process to avoid further legal cases. Though many users took it to be a kind of status symbol, the original purpose was to prove that journalists, notable figures and others were who they said they were.

Musk appears to be learning about impersonation the hard way, after a number of blue tick verified Twitter users changed their usernames and profile pics to “Elon Musk” and began parodying him. One user (whose account is currently suspended) tweeted “my wife left me”, while another (also suspended) wrote “There is nothing better than waking up and enjoying a fresh, steaming cup of my own urine. Such a tangy way to start the day, and it’s scientifically proven to help brain cells grow. If you want to be like me, drink your own pee.”

Advertisement

Comedian Kathy Griffin was also suspended after impersonating the world’s richest man. 

The problem could only get bigger once anyone willing to pay $8 would be able to get that verified tick. Anticipating that very problem, Musk announced on Twitter that “going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended”.

“Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue,” he added.

Advertisement

“Any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark.”

Deborah Bloomfield
Deborah Bloomfield

Related posts:

  1. Qatar working to open humanitarian corridors to Afghanistan, official says
  2. Oil holds above $75 on U.S. inventories and gas prices
  3. Pro-EU Dobrev leads in opposition primary to take on Hungary’s Orban
  4. US Navy Suggests It Has More UFO Videos But Will Not Be Releasing Them

Source Link: After Many Accounts Impersonate Musk, Musk Bans All Accounts That Impersonate Others

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

  • Why Is The Top Of Canada So Sparsely Populated? Meet The “Canadian Shield”
  • Humans Are In The Middle Of “A Great Evolutionary Transition”, New Paper Claims
  • Why Do Some Toilets Have Two Flush Buttons?
  • 130-Year-Old Butter Additive Discovered In Danish Basement Contains Bacteria From The 1890s
  • Prehistoric Humans Made Necklaces From Marine Mollusk Fossils 20,000 Years Ago
  • Zond 5: In 1968 Two Soviet Steppe Tortoises Beat Humans To Orbiting Around The Moon
  • Why Cats Adapted This Defense Mechanism From Snakes
  • Mother Orca Seen Carrying Dead Calf Once Again On Washington Coast
  • A Busy Spider Season Is Brewing: Why This Fall Could See A Boom Of Arachnid Activity
  • What Alternatives Are There To The Big Bang Model?
  • Magnetic Flip Seen Around First Photographed Black Hole Pushes “Models To The Limit”
  • Something Out Of Nothing: New Approach Mimics Matter Creation Using Superfluid Helium
  • Surströmming: Why Sweden’s Stinky Fermented Fish Smells So Bad (But People Still Eat It)
  • First-Ever Recording Of Black Hole Recoil Captured During Merger – And You Can Listen To It
  • The Moon Is Moving Away From Earth At A Rate Of About 3.8 Centimeters Per Year. Will It Ever Drift Apart?
  • As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds “The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up”
  • Plate Tectonics And CO2 On Planets Suggest Alien Civilizations “Are Probably Pretty Rare”
  • How To Watch The “Awkward” Partial Solar Eclipse This Weekend
  • World’s Oldest Pots: 20,000-Year-Old Vessels May Have Been Used For Cooking Clams Or Brewing Beer
  • “The Body Is Slowly And Continuously Heated”: 14,000-Year-Old Smoked Mummies Are World’s Oldest
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version