Twitter CEO Elon Musk reveals penalties for impersonating verified users
Elon Musk has revealed what will happen if you impersonate a verified Twitter user with the new badge system. Earlier this year, Elon Musk bought Twitter for over $40 billion. The deal caused a lot of scrutiny as many believed that he was not good for the app and would do more harm than good. However, he still has many supporters as well who believe he can do a lot of good by reforming Twitter. He became the owner of the app at the end of October and has started making significant changes. He has already fired half of the company and started rolling out an update that will soon allow all users to purchase a blue tick for their profile. Haken previously showed that the account belonged to a person of interest (celebrity, journalist or politician) and that their tweets were not from an impostor.
Now, because of the way people can change their display names, photos, and other things on Twitter, this has created a lot of questions about what this new tagging system will look like. What happens if an average joe decides to buy a chin tag, change his profile to someone like Joe Biden, and cause anarchy? Well, they just get banned and they̵[ads1]7;re allowed to create a new account and pay another $8 for the Twitter Blue subscription, which gives them a check mark. says Elon Musk If scammers want to do this a million times, they can. Some users pointed to ways to make this less problematic, such as making changes to the app’s font so people can’t use letters that look like a lowercase L instead of an uppercase I to make their names look like a another person’s username. Musk agreed with the ideawhich means they could look into this more closely.
Great question. Twitter will suspend the account attempting impersonation and keep the money!
So if scammers want to do this a million times, that’s just a whole bunch of free money. pic.twitter.com/QUrxqb59I0
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 5 November 2022
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 5 November 2022
As of now, it remains to be seen how out of control the fraud situation will get. If everyone is aware that the chin is basically meaningless now and doesn’t actually represent someone’s identity, people can quickly learn to look more closely at profiles and not be fooled. But we simply won’t know until later.
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