The adage of "move fast and break things" seems to have been taken to a new level by Musk. The drama has been most obvious in the paid verification system that rolled out this past week and has already proved a massive headaches for the platform.
After announcing plans for an $8 paid verification system, Twitter has gone through multiple versions of the system before arriving at its current iteration. After trying to add a checkmark for certain government officials, media, and major brands, the feature was pulled. Everybody gets a blue checkmark, but if you click on the icon in each profile it will either say they were verified because they are a public identity, or if they paid for the privilege.
The constant changes and updates to existing systems must be tiring for those who still remain at the company.
Users were stopped from pretending to be public figures with the introduction of verified accounts. The platform had already been sued for facilitating fakes, so Musk has to walk a fine line between making money and being safe for public figures. They need to get Musk to take the situation more seriously.
If you purchase the blue checkmark, you will see that you have an active subscription to Twitter Blue, but you won't see it on your notifications. The paid blue checkmark can be used by anyone who pays, even if they don't have a account on either of the two websites.
It is not clear at first glance which accounts were verified before Musk came on and which were purchased. The policy to stop new accounts from being created was quietly changed on Thursday. The company claims that they will be implementing a new process to change names soon, and that those who purchase their check are unable to do so.
The "Eight Dollars" extension created by Will Seagar and Walter Lim will modify the verification process to show who paid for their checkmark.
There are also accounts that have been cited for hate and attack campaigns that have purchased their way to the blue check mark. Some ultra right-wing accounts have been hidden with warnings that "this profile may include potentially sensitive content." The verification may make their messages more popular.
There have been a lot of accounts trying to look like Musk since the multi-billionaires took over. Some of them have taken over account names like@e1on_musk or something similar and used the name and photo to send out fraudulent messages.
If you pay attention to Musk's replies, they're already full of people begging for attention with very spammy and rather scammy crypto promotions, but now these accounts are able to buy themselves a checkmark, which may make it even easier to impersonateTwitter.
Some fake accounts were ready to take the piss out of Musk, such as the one that said a new "Twitter Gold" would give users "yearly family vacations and nightly dinners with me" If you have a name like that. Come back. I adore you.
The accounts started imitating the official page quickly. Similar to Musk, the page was used to promote scam websites. The account had a lot of followers before it was taken down.
There was a fake verified account that posted "I miss killing Iraqis" from George W. Bush's account. The words "so what if I did 9/11" were on the profile before the account was taken down.
The account specifically mentioned the $8 verification. They wrote, "Y'all are missing the point." If Musk suspends us prior to a month, we can get refunds from our credit cards, which is a small price to pay to make this app useless.
There are no refunds for the blue subscription.
According to a verified profile, Tony Blair seems to be on the same page with Bush.
An account called Nintendo of America posted a picture of its main mascot giving a finger to the crowd and we have to guess that he is going to stomp on a lot of goombas. The fake Nintendo account replied "well he did" when a user said "Mario would never do that."
The account was up for more than an hour before it was taken down.
The account called Pope Francis told its users that the wicked could pose as the righteous to trap the unwary. Social media has made this happen worse. A verified account claimed to be former Pope John Paul I and said he was murdered by the Mafia and Vatican Bank.
It is great to see people that have been criticized in the media apologize. The fake accounts for President Joe Biden were seen by the public. Another verified account says that Ben Shapiro was ready to talk about facts and logic about his genes.
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has spent a lot of time chasing the big lie. I wonder if I am so out of touch with the kids these days that I had to look up where that was from. You bet?
The fake Giuliani won't talk about the big stinky doo doo he made on Air Force 1 but it's not like humor has moved too far ahead of my own time.
Multiple accounts that weren't previously verified have bought their way into the "lords" of blue checkmarks The verification of TikTok, a high-profile right-wing harassment group that is often cited by the likes of The Daily Caller and Fox News, was bought by the group.
Right-wing circles still shape the conservative narrative around drag performers as well as trans people, despite the fact that libs of TikTok is a major force in the right.
The account Gays Against Groomers has also been verified under the new $8 system.
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