Nintendo, valve and more: fake and verified Twitter accounts make problematic posts
He had warned at the same time. Twitter will do many silly things in the early months under its leadership, said Elon Musk, his new CEO. And the first great idiocy started recently. In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, you can now pay $8 (about $40) to have your official verified seal next to your name . Your usefulness? The Twitter algorithm makes you appear in priority in answers among other things, a kind of privilege. Of course some netizens used it problematically.
A problem that generated embarrassment
Initially planned to combat all false fraudulent/cryptographic accounts (and still rescue Twitter profits), occurred the first major identity thefts . All recognizable, despite everything, if we pay a little attention to their @ (name), some obviously fall into the trap.
Among the most unusual are:
Note that the scam problem seems only vaguely resolved. And if you see Mario showing the finger or Joe Biden talking about her genus on Twitter makes Elon Musk smile, is to wonder if he is not affecting his platform .
Because if some parodies make you smile, Identity theft remains a big problem . It is to wonder how far it can go.
an iron defense?
In defense of Elon Musk, all parody accounts that did not specify it in their biography were quickly removed from the platform. But how long? Only a small portion of netizens have access to the seal at the moment, and the number of these infractions can grow.
A temporary solution was put into practice: a second gray seal with the official inscription in certain large Twitter accounts, it is manually granted. Like the old 1. But the new Twitter boss confessed to killing this measure after two hours. What did Twitter plan to compensate for false accounts that do parody?
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