After submit over Twitter and announce that users can be pay to be " verified " ( perhaps without any identification check at all ) , Elon Musk come out to be easy learning the difficult way why Twitter implemented check in the first topographic point .

Shortly after taking over the platform , Musk announced that user would be able to get aver for $ 20 a month , before being higgle down to $ 8 by author Stephen King .

One problem this raises , as well as progress to it more difficult to know if you are getting information from a trusted source , is that it create it more difficult to have it away if someone is the person who they are claiming to be . If anyone can corrupt a gamy tick ( which used to mean that an identification check had taken place ) , what is to give up someone from purchasing one and then pretending to be someone else ?

Musk looks like learning about impersonation the surd way , after a numeral of blue tick verified Twitter user change their usernames and profile pics to " Elon Musk " and began parodying him . One user ( whose account is presently suspended ) pinch " my wife left me " , while another ( also suspended)wrote"There is nothing better than waking up and enjoying a wise , steaming loving cup of my own urine . Such a sourish direction to take up the sidereal day , and it ’s scientifically proven to help mastermind cells rise . If you require to be like me , toast your own pee . "

Comedian Kathy Griffin was alsosuspendedafter impersonate the reality ’s richest man .

The job could only get bigger once anyone uncoerced to give $ 8 would be capable to get that assert tick . foreknow that very job , Muskannounced on Twitter that"going forward , any Twitter address engaging in impersonation without intelligibly specialise ' mockery ' will be permanently suspend " .

“ antecedently , we issued a warning before suspension system , but now that we are rolling out far-flung verification , there will be no monition . This will be distinctly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue , ” he added .

" Any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verify checkmark . ”