Twitter's subscription service not available after impersonators flourish

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Twitter appears to have suspended sign-ups for its Blue subscription service after the initial rollout was marred by users who received a verification badge and then impersonated celebrities, politicians and brands.

The sudden absence of the service, which CEO Elon Musk has touted as an important step for the company as it looks to increase revenue and decrease the prevalence of

bots and trolls, adds to what has already been a series of whiplash product moves in the two weeks since he took control of the company.on one of its Twitter accounts.

 

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What? Shocking?

Thank Heavens Jesus Returned With $8.00. He Got Here Just In Time To Get His Verification Blue Check! Yay'z! 😂🐕🏜

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It shows you how far off he was in running this alter- ego.

Maybe there were not enough employees to do verifications

Daaaaas

ArthurCaplan Definitely not foreseeable . . . . Except by nearly everyone

richardweiner someone didn't think this through very much, say?

Almost anyone with a functioning brain could have anticipated this.

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What a disaster, in record time.

It's the modern version of buying a fake ID.

What did he think was going to happen?

Yikes I'm being barraged for saying 'Corruption'.🤣 I have a funny image of people that use the word 'Bot' 'Troll'😂

The number of ‘8 dollars’ posts has also give way down

🤣 now they’ll roll out fixes for their fixes. I’m sure they have staff to do that

GFY Musk 😂

shocking no one but elon musk apparently

This man not understanding that was the whole point of verification from the beginning is very telling. 😂

Who could have predicted that?!

lmFao🤣🤣😭 what a shitshow...

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