In the midst of a highly controversial move, Twitter is facing a wave of celebrity and corporate impersonations on its platform. Apparently some users took advantage of the new verification system of the company’s payment within hours of its launch.
One of the first steps he took Elon Musk It was a new label with which official accounts will be identified, to which is added the current blue badge that verifies a user’s account on the social network and which now becomes paid.
The wave of imitations erupted after the company allowed any user to buy a blue brand without request identity verification who was on the other side.
In this way the new directive took the reins, imitations became the order of the day. Some users have started buying verified accounts and they pretended to be public figures or recognized companies.
One of those affected was Nintendo United Stateswho had to see how a blue-ticked account posted an image of his iconic character Mario Bros manufacture “fuck off”.
While the verified account of the NBA star Lebron James falsely claimed that should be transferred to another team and said goodbye to his audience, which aroused the indignation of many followers.
The forged account Donald Trumpwho hasn’t been back in business with his account yet, tweeted: “That’s why Elon Musk’s plan doesn’t work.”
The criticisms did not take long to appear, mainly due to the fact that this can lead to the proliferation of fake newsa scourge that Musk wanted to eradicate.
Social network trackers have begun download some of these accounts, like that of the false Jesus Christ, no, for example. Its executives indicated a few hours ago that they are “aggressively pursuing impersonation and deception”.
The new Twitter owner said the feature is intended to increase costs for spammers and those who abuse the verification system will be banned, despite his promises that such bans would be “extremely rare” under his ownership of the platform.
Elon Musk’s first email to Twitter employees
As it turned out, Elon Musk himself sent an email to his employees so that they were prepared. Since he warned it “hard times ahead” Y threatened to ban remote work unless you personally approve.
Musk said there was “no way to sweeten the message” about the economic outlook and how it will affect a company dependent on advertising like Twitter, according to the email reviewed by Bloomberg News.
The new rules, like its Tesla factory, will go into effect immediately, requiring employees to be in the office at least 40 hours a week, he added.
Twitter has been under Musk’s leadership for about two weeks, during which time it has laid off nearly half of its staff and most of its management team.
Musk’s intention is that subscriptions account for half of Twitter’s revenue. Also eliminated the “rest days”and Twitter staff calendars, which was a corporate-wide monthly day off introduced during the time of the pandemic.
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Source: Clarin
