, are being impersonated on Twitter following the launch of the service’s new paid-for verification system., Twitter independently verified and awarded certain accounts, indicated by a blue checkmark, based on them meeting certain requirements.
These accounts were deemed to be active, notable, and authentic ones of public interest, but there’s now another way for anyone to get ‘verified’ which has resulted in potentially harmful consequences.The new $7.99 Twitter Blue monthly subscription service enables anyone to pay to have the blue checkmark on their account without undergoing a review to confirm if they meet the active, notable and authentic criteria.
Musk previously claimed that the new system would act as a deterrent to spammers and scammers, but hours after its rollout on Wednesday it was also being used to promote untruths. A fake but verified Nintendo of America account recently popped up advertising an unannounced Super Mario Galaxy game. It also published an image of Nintendo’s mascot giving the middle finger.A verified Valve account was also used to ‘announce’ Ricochet: Neon Prime, which was billed as the “next competitive platform” from the company behind the Half-Life series and leading online digital games storebefore users identified it as a ruse and locked it.
Funny how this is totally backfiring and doing the complete opposite of what verification was meant for in the first place. The other system wasn't good either, but this one is totally broken.
Bro thats funny af
Yeah and guess what? It could’ve happened before. It’s only happening now because people hate Musk for some reason and they think they’re being clever trying to make some stupid point.
DumpsterFire
People paying $8 to troll a game company just to get perma banned seems like a waste of money
Daddy_Desync
as a web developer myself, I can guarantee you that this was approved and rolled out by someone who fully understood how it could be abused but thought 'meh, not my problem', instead of holding back the release until the kinks could be worked out.
People think they're so funny doing that
Not surprising in the slightest
Their just saying what Nintendo thinks about us.
elonmusk said this isn’t allowed, he will save us from fakers!!!
And everyone knew it was going to happen. So what is he thinking
Honestly having verification tied to Twitter blue was stupid. Twitter blue is already a value proposition and verification being tied to it just causes problems.
But we can’t make fun at Musk 😂
how to solve this problem: make the verification icon and the twitter blue icon separate. i bet he was counting on industry big and content creators to pay or lose their audience, but he only created more problems
Are you telling me I am not going to be able to take any tweet I read at face value? Im going to have to actually verify information for myself before I spread it all over the place...What am I a journalist? I cant believe my ability to just instantly believe everything Is gone.
Some people are really sad as duck honest. Go outside and touch grass snd than slap yourself
Elon Musk will learn fast how Nintendo file lawsuits
How too lost 44 billion dollars in loans…
Oh wow, well this was totally unexpected 🙄
😏
I knew that was coming
We all knew this was gonna happen, dude just doesn’t understand twitter! He’s trying to change twitter but he’s making it worse than already is.
I assume this will just get worse until everyone just leaves Twitter eventually.
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Great way to get your CC blacklisted I suspect. 🤔
Shut up, billionaires always know what they doin. We lower people don't understand their higher state of mind. Praise the dollar ! 🤪🤪
i dont care if it happens to companies but when it starts happening to good people then it's an issue to me
Companies will end up leaving Twitter.
worst update ive ever seen
Great idea elonmusk , nobody predicted this at all… you’re killing this app, plenty of money to be made here, just not like this
If only anyone could have predicted this would happen!
Yes it's immature, but it amuses me that there's 'doofus' in the name.
😂😂😂
That was actually Nintendo setting up their new account.
here comes the activists 😂