After Twitter launched the Blue subscription, which makes the blue tick badge paid, many copycat accounts emerged. So how do we know if the accounts are real? What does Twitter intend to do about it? Let’s see together.
The popular social media platform Twitter passed under the management of Elon Musk after a process that took months. It has also been announced that many innovations will be added with the famous billionaire’s takeover of the platform. Perhaps the most striking of these was that the ‘blue tick’ badge we saw on verified accounts would become paid. This feature, which was released yesterday for iOS in certain countries with a Twitter Blue subscription, showed that anyone could have a verified account for $ 8.
However, this situation has caused controversy due to the possibility of causing a very serious problem. This was that some malicious users imitated other accounts by giving money and getting blue ticks. After the subscription was made available, it was expected and such users began to use the blue tick badge for fraud.
Counterfeit accounts surfaced, even trying to commit cryptocurrency scams
Many users got blue ticks by giving money and other accounts to imitate started. For example, in the image above, we see that a person with a blue tick imitates Twitter’s official account by making his name ‘Twitter’. This user is not only impersonating Twitter, but also giving fake links on it. crypto scam trying to do.
In other examples, we see such people imitating famous names. For example, a Blue subscriber who managed to get a blue tick again imitates the legendary basketball player Lebron James and spreads false information by saying that the athlete wants to leave the Los Angeles Lakers. In addition, the game giant Valve, Nintendo We encounter many different similar events, including
even directly Those who imitate Elon Musk even appearing. In short, this situation has the potential to spiral out of control. So how can we distinguish accounts from real ones? Does Musk have any plans in this regard? Let’s take a look at them.
How will we distinguish between real and fake accounts?
Of course, there is no direct way to do this. checking account and follower count We can say it is. In addition, it is possible to understand whether the account is real or not by clicking the blue tick in the profile. Because if that account has been verified with Blue subscription, when you click the blue tick ‘This account has been verified as a subscriber to Twitter Blue’ expressions appear.
However, there are things that will make it unnecessary. The new extension, dubbed ‘eight dollars’ by Will Seager and Walter Lim, is one of them.
This extension shows us whether the accounts are fake or real by replacing the blue tick in user profiles with two different labels. As you can see from above, with this extension, it is available in real accounts. ‘Truly Approved’in othersPaid for Verification’ he is writing. You can access and download this extension via the link here. After that, you need to turn on the ‘Developer Mode’ at the top right of the ‘Extensions’ section in Chrome and install the extension you downloaded from the ‘Install Unpacked Item’ section. So now you can see who is real and who is fake.
Elon Musk says authentication may come
Twitter states that it is working on these accounts. It is reported that users who already imitate are also banned after a while. Also, the company New accounts created on or after November 9, 2022 He made a statement that he couldn’t get a blue tick through Blue.
Elon Musk, on the other hand, in his statements on the subject, says that they will add to the text that appears when we click the blue tick on approved accounts, that that account may be fake. Also in the coming days authenticationIt is said by the famous entrepreneur that methods such as corporate link can be added for this badge.
We will see how the future of the new system, which causes some problems on the platform, will be in the future. So what do you think about this system that will allow everyone to get a blue tick? You can share your thoughts in the comments.
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