Since Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk for $44 billion, people can see a series of news about Twitter being “transformed” by Musk almost every few days.
Not long ago, Twitter launched a new paid certification system. Any user can get Twitter’s “Blue V” certification by paying $8 a month. Musk himself is quite determined to stick to this system – but recently, This system has become an imitation show for netizens to revive their lives.
Just yesterday, some early-rising netizens witnessed a spectacle after turning on their phones. A Nintendo of America account with Twitter verification posted a picture of Mario showing “friendly gestures.”
Of course, this is not the real Nintendo official account, but an imitation account that purchased paid authentication. Although the fake account was quickly banned, this magical picture was still saved by netizens who are quick-witted and quick-witted.
Not only a game company encountered this kind of “substitute attack”, but Valve also released a preview of the sequel to the old game “Ricochet” (released in 2000) without its knowledge, and even put the company that V has not yet known. The announced mystery game “Neon Prime” was directly used as a suffix.
In fact, this kind of imitation trick is very easy to see. Although Twitter can change the nickname at will, but the user name is unique, so just look at the user name, and you can see at a glance whether it is true or false. But the high imitation number often only needs to change the order of one character, it is already dazzling, and now coupled with the certified “Blue V” icon, it is enough to scare most users.
Of course, Twitter has also made some responses to this. According to the latest official instructions, only Twitter accounts registered before November 9 can be paid for authentication.
It remains to be seen whether the slowdown will be effective
Although it is not known when Twitter will reopen the paid authentication function to new users, but before that, Twitter officials do need to be careful with it, after all, in the face of netizens can not be underestimated the heart of the whole live, in addition to simple high imitation, officials are afraid that there are really a lot of things to consider.
