Twitter pauses paid verifications after users abuse service to impersonate brands and people

[anna_gari_maata]

Twitter appears to have paused its $7.99/month Blue subscription service, which allowed people to pay for a verification check mark, after users were abusing it to impersonate brands and famous people.

Twitter launched the service earlier this week in its iPhone app, allowing users to buy a checkmark that had previously been used to show that an account was verified or official. As of Friday, the iPhone app no longer shows an option to sign up for Twitter Blue.

 

The quick suspension of the service suggests that, at least currently, CEO Elon Musk’s big plan to generate new revenue from users isn’t working as expected.

The paid subscription service led to a plethora of pranksters creating imposter accounts on Twitter. It left the platform even more ripe for misinformation, and many checkmarks were used to impersonate brands with unflattering messages. That, too, presents a big problem for advertisers, some of which have already paused spending on the platform.

Some users who already paid for the service say their paid-for blue checkmark has disappeared from their account.

A Twitter spokesperson was not immediately available for comment. Musk was not immediately available for comment.

[hunkyfunky2]

One can easily predict it's going to happen - when u can just buy blue tick which used to have lot of weight and respect.

It has stock market, financial amd national security implications...

Unless they delete all new bought blue ticks, I expect all reputed /existing ones either don't tweet or explicitly takes measures so that no one takes the tweets seriously. 

Lily stock plummeted ... Tomorrow some one else can write something which can start chain reaction... People were dumb even before, falling for tweets from non blue ticks. 

[anna_gari_maata]

4 minutes ago, hunkyfunky2 said:

One can easily predict it's going to happen - when u can just buy blue tick which used to have lot of weight and respect.

It has stock market, financial amd national security implications...

Unless they delete all new bought blue ticks, I expect all reputed /existing ones either don't tweet or explicitly takes measures so that no one takes the tweets seriously. 

Lily stock plummeted ... Tomorrow some one else can write something which can start chain reaction... People were dumb even before, falling for tweets from non blue ticks. 

 

That's not the only issue, there are impersonation problems. 

Musk gariki dream lo oka idea vacchindi, "no more impresonations" ani ... adi chupinchadaniki sample ki Kathy Griffin oka famous account block chesadu 

next day andaru impersoanation chesi accounts create chesaru ...

adi handle chese employees ni Musk garu fire chesaru... so it's a banana republic now

twitter ni adukuntunnaru, because there is no one to handle complaints internally. 

Rumor is it will be bankrupt soon

[dasari4kntr]

 

[hunkyfunky2]

7 minutes ago, anna_gari_maata said:

 

That's not the only issue, there are impersonation problems. 

Musk gariki dream lo oka idea vacchindi, "no more impresonations" ani ... adi chupinchadaniki sample ki Kathy Griffin oka famous account block chesadu 

next day andaru impersoanation chesi accounts create chesaru ...

adi handle chese employees ni Musk garu fire chesaru... so it's a banana republic now

twitter ni adukuntunnaru, because there is no one to handle complaints internally. 

Rumor is it will be bankrupt soon

I wonder how one can be so dumb...

They also have no privacy or security officer. No content moderation team.

 

In some pages based on my search , I still see ENG-NZ match score as latest t20 score.

 

 

[bharathicement]

Plus it has of late become another version of po-rn tube

[dasari4kntr]

one blue tick fake account…big  confusion…