Twitter abandons paid verification after trolls mayhem

Elon Musk was the CEO Twitter (Besides that Tesla D SpaceX), and since then the social network has been caught in a cycle of bad news and worse results. Let’s see what’s the latest fire started in the little blue bird app.

Some days ago, Elon Musk He said that Twitter users can get blue verification by simply paying for an $8 Twitter Blue subscription. According to Elon Musk, the current system only encouraged classes, and everyone had the right to be tested.

The problem is that the funniest users (trolls) Take advantage of blue verification by simply paying the $8 monthly fee to cause social media havoc. For hours, Twitter was a terrifying place, more so than usual.

For this reason, Twitter has been forced to change the rules of its Twitter Blue subscription service.. And until they come up with a way to deal with this change, he will continue to disable this option (this is very important because Twitter’s main goal was to sell the service to users).

Unruly Twitter full of trolls wreaking havoc

Because the Internet is the Internet, it didn’t take long for people to realize that they could impersonate someone else and that the checkmark could help them fool less awake users. Let’s face it, any of us could fall for this phishing scam.

For example, someone pretending to be LeBron James the most powerful basketball player in the world, announce that he is leaving the Los Angeles Lakers, his current NBA team. It was a bombshell for a few very confused minutes.

I can’t imagine why all the advertisers leave Twitter. pic.twitter.com/pg55WXkxhS

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) November 9, 2022

But the fact is that, as saved by journalist Jason Schreier, one account posed as Nintendo and posted a picture of the Mario brothers sticking out a finger. If you know the history of Nintendo and how true they are, you will understand how much this means.

Luckily, Twitter started blocking them within a few hours. The new rule could help reduce the number of fake accounts, but it’s unclear how Twitter is going to address this issue in the future: You cannot permanently block new Twitter Blue users. Elon Musk has a problem, and it’s not Tesla.