Not long after new Twitter CEO Elon Musk rolled out a paid subscription that allows users to buy a blue check mark, some people began abusing the service, impersonating verified athletes, brands and celebrities. NBC News’ Kalhan Rosenblatt explains how Musk is responding to the impersonations and how it could impact Twitter’s relationship with advertisers.
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He's fired everyone, who is actually going to verify the IDs of potentially fake accounts?
Elon is ego driven and was trying to be a big troll by buying Twitter so he could control the narrative but average people taught him a lesson. Anybody can ruin a billionaire’s day with only $8 bucks.😂
Sophia A.I knows all through the new Blockchain technology…the all seeing eye is on you!
The end of SOROS ….GO MUSK
Greatest Epic Fail
0:13 Abuse?! This service is working as intended Elon wanted free speech and comedy and the public gave him a circus.
I saw this coming but not for the reason you might think. It's mostly the left trying to cause chaos and wreck havoc so they can say "I told ya so it was a bad idea"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 what dumpster fire.
He should have walked in carrying a toilet, that’s where all this is headed
Get your account verified with the above mentioned name fast and reliably.
Macdonald's got that precious blue box, except they didn't, someone else is "official" account. 🤣
This is a disaster looking for a hurricane, watching a tornado.
Well, Mr. Musk, what do you do now?
YOU fired so many staff the remainder will have grey hair by Monday. 🙇
So you can't believe anything on Twitter now, a person can pay $8 for a blue subscription and claim to be anyone.
1 finally got my account back online check this guy out he's account username above S DM him ASAP he can also verify all accounts and he bypass all activation locks
something like that would only require 1$ to do. If you want to think true freedom, no data share, data collection, none. Ads you could pay to remove.
Who knew…??? 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😜🤪😛😛😅😆😆🤣🤣🤣
Twitter will tank
People and businesses are already leaving
Bye boy
Musk is ignorant to business and social society also Angry that he bought that company wayyyyy to much$$$$$
i never understood why Twitter wouldn't just create a separate indicator for Paid Premium features. They've relegated actual verification to a grey official check mark and use blue check mark for paid subscriptions when it should be the other way around because the blue check mark is essentially indicating verification for the LONGEST time.
This is absolutely hilarious. The internet is king.
I have to wait for twitter to settle down a year. Then ill look
I moved to YouBChat app
Lmao. He said he'd try to eliminate scammers, not encourage them…
$8 ? Bro that's cheap. Imma pretend I'm Donald Trump.
Elon buying Twitter just to burn it to the ground is absolutely hilarious.
There is always a loophole
Now a days no one using twitter
Great, I'll impersonate God on twitter!
Musk figured it all out, made it better, free speech, no suspensions…um err…😂
Whatever it takes to get that 8 bucks to Elon. He must be a GOOD BURGER fan…
Congratulations Elon, you made Twitter WORSE, LOL… I didn’t think it was possible.
Oh, boo-hoo! People act as if this crap actually matters! So, you followed a verified troll. Did you die?
What did people do before they began drinking the spiked social media Kool-aid and became addicted to social media bullshite?
In a nutshell, Elon’s plan isn’t working.
Musk has always been socially awkward. Why would he think his skill set would be perfect for a social network? Ah yes, narcissism my
onlyold friendCan we NOW admit that maybe Elon is in over his head? I know the Elon stans are many, but maybe, just maybe slashing the staff in half, while making fast and loose decisions is sinking Twitter faster than the Titanic.
Musk is like the Roller-in-Chief, so I can't imagine that he didn't see this outcome. On the other hand, as a full blown narcissist, I can see how he would firmly believe that nobody was as smart as he is, so no way would anyone else be smart enough to think stuff like this up.
Seems win/win for Elon. If you wanna pay 8$ for a 2 hour meme, the joke is on you.
No lifers