Elon Musk On Sunday, he sneered at a US Senator who asked about the problems his decision to give a verified profile to anyone who pays $8 a month has created on Twitter.
the legislator, Democrat Ed Markeysent Musk a letter with a series of questions after a Washington Post reporter was allowed to create a Twitter account with his approval posing as him and with the blue verified user symbol.
Markey wrote the letter via social network and noted: “Twitter needs to explain how it happened and how to prevent it from happening again”.
“Maybe it’s because your real account looks like a parody?”the billionaire mocked in a response posted this Sunday, also wondering why the senator appeared in his profile picture wearing a mask.
Markey was quick to respond, reminding Musk that one of his companies -Twitter- is under the supervision of the Federal Trade Commission and that another -Tesla- is under investigation for repeated fatal accidents involving its vehicles in autopilot mode .
“And you waste time arguing on the internet. Fix your companies or Congress will“He warned the Senator.
One of the first measures that Musk took during the acquisition of Twitter was a new label with which official accounts will be identified, which is complemented by the current blue badge that verifies a user’s account on the social network and which now becomes for a fee. .
The chaos generated by the new payment verification led Twitter to temporarily suspend the implementation of this system this week, after numerous Internet users who had obtained the blue “check” when paying for a subscription pretended to be companies and personalities. .
In response to a user’s questions, Musk has assured in the last few hours that the service does not work Twitter Blue will likely be available again by the end of next week.
In addition, the richest man in the world said that Twitter will soon allow organizations to identify which other Twitter accounts are associated with them, although he did not elaborate on the matter.
Twitter has been under the thumb of Musk for two weeks, in which the other Tesla owner has laid off nearly half of its staff and much of its management team.
Source: Clarin
