Fake Twitter accounts have been popping up on the platform after the company removed blue check marks for high-profile accounts. NBC’s David Ingram reports on how this move affects users’ access to important information from official sources.
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Elon promised that he'll step down and new CEO will take over.
I guess that was another lie and broken promise.
Who uses Twitter for news? Nonetheless, if that's the case US government should fund and create a website like Twitter but only verified world government, fire/police, agencies and news could post, everyone else could comment, like, share, only, without images or videos.
I am conservative, but this childish thinker has destroyed Twitter
$8!
Is financing available?
I bought a blue check mark… I don’t even have a Twitter account. Those rich people sound like a bunch of 🐈 🐈 🐈
I mean Elon Musk has already won, he's cut 80% off the useless workforce and removed one major machinery of radical leftists that peddles biased information. And honestly most people here complaining about $8 while typing on a $1000, $2000 iphone are hilarious 😂😂😂
Imagine being an adult and crying over not getting a blue sticker. Democrats in a nutshell.
Dr. Seuss was so prophetic when he wrote the book, Star Belly Sneetches. The blue Twitter check mark is no different. The hollywierdos are just like the stuck up sneetches. Next week, Elon should really mess these dweebs up by changing the color from blue to red! The hollywierdo sketches will be screaming at the moon again! Oh, good times.
Has @Elon proven to be trustworthy with your personal or public information?
😅😅😅😅😅. I thought you said you won't pay 😅😅😅😅
You think Elon does not know what he's doing? Good luck with that.
I bet it's easier building Reusable Rockets and electric vehicles but too difficult to run a website 😅😅😅. For a guy who has coded since he was 10yrs Old 😅😅😅
Solution: all important stuff should just leave Twitter.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Elon Musk killed his own Twitter HQ!
I read 6 million lost their blue checks? Omygosh. Has a law been made for them?
I have found so many bugs on Twitter for past few months. They haven’t even fixed them yet🤣.
You want your fancy blue mark, then pay for it and stop crying… I don't care about any, blue or none are the same for meh…
And no one is shocked
And now some blue marks are back for some. What an absolute demonstration of failed thinking and destruction of a business. The entire value in the blue mark was that it gave a good indication of an authentic account, and the service being a reliable source of news is what makes Twitter valuable.
But now that blue marks can be purchased for $8, that value in the mark has gone there can be no trust in it while anyone with $8 can have one. And all of a sudden the value of Twitter as a source of reliable information has gone. This does just devalue the blame marks, it devalues the entire Twitter service as now it will be much harder to tell real from fake. Brilliant thinking Elon
Can’t this celebrities etc pay the $8 like everybody else? This is actual equity. Like it is a service and everyone is equal. Kind of crazy how we have demigods- and the political
Left is outraged they would have to pay equally for a service even though they are famous… and yes governments can afford $8 a month too – I thought like an upper class of people with different rules is the opposite of being liberal
It makes one think perhaps someone’s doing this to leak something to shutdown social media. This seems suspicious.
The solution is to just not use Twitter for reliable information
TWITTER IS TWITTER. ITS NOT AN OFFICIAL SITE FOR WORLD NEWS IN ANY RELIABLE FASHION.
IF YOU BASE LIFE DECISIONS ON TWITTER FEED YOU DESERVE THE CONSEQUENCES.
WISE UP DORKS!
Man, lefties really miss their little check mark!
I do think government organizations should get the check. Celebrities no. Individual persons no. small businesses no, local news no. Bc you have to understand the point here. Paying says I'm invested personally in the content on this page. I'm not going to share anything that isn't true. Or that's the point I think. I do think local governments like police departments and departments of children's services or human services could be given one… Idk. I'm glad I'm not Elon but I agree with his goals
Love it, he bought it to run it to the ground… he wants us to unplug, and quit being so over dependent on social media. Look up not down!
Who cares
The only hot mess is our mainstream media😂
MANY ARE GIVING ELON MUSK THE POWER TO LORD OVER THEM; DELETE YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT LIKE NPR DID, AND GAIN BACK YOUR OWN DIGNITY And btw, don't buy Tesla Products either, there are plenty of better options out there for a fraction of the cost, and you won't be paying Tesla to enrich Elon Musk….
No one is finding twitter too hard to use
Blue Check = Red MAGA Hat
Love how NBC is just making up a non-existent problem to attack Twitter. "Elon Musk has not said what we are supposed to do."…lol. You do nothing. Real accounts are being reverified through the new blue check policy. If you want to get your news from an unvaried source, then that's on you.
It was nothing but fake before you guys are such liars
Theres tons of fake accounts on all of these platforms. Twitter, facebook, youtube..
No one cares. These fake news stations hate free speech.
I never saw any value in Twitter other than another advertising platform.
It certainly has no other value to society.
To call it "social media" is completely false.
$8 to get badge back! 😂😂😂😂 This system was created in a shambles by Satan and he's days are counted. Not speaking about E but wicked society. Just like Noah's world, no one took note and all were swept away. Bye YouTube! Bye Twitter! Bye world. Not the planet, wicked society.
The giving of ticks to anyone with 1m followers comes from the kindergarten school of programming and problem solving. That's literally what Musk has brought to the table when he turned twitter from a big boy company to a vanity project.
Twitter and Facebook are the biggest drivers of hate speech and user tracking. 80 million Americans use Twitter while 150 million Americans use Tik Tok. Parents accuse Snapchat of enabling drug dealers. Amazon has facial recognition. This is another typical racist-based blame distraction like weapons of mass destruction. 20 years later, are Americans still that gullible?