Celebs Impersonate Musk To Mock $8 Verification

November 6, 2022 Business, Social Media

Yahoo News reports:

As Twitter’s system for verifying that people really are who they say they are now requires a $7.99/month fee, celebrities who already had a blue checkmark, including “One Day at a Time” actress Valerie Bertinelli changed their names on the platform to “Elon Musk” as a subtle protest.

Vanity Fair TV critic Sonia Saraiya also changed her Twitter name to “Elon Musk” and shared direct messages she’s gotten from people who think she really is the Tesla and SpaceX founder.

On a similar note, actor-comedian Zach Heltzel changed his Twitter name to JFK Jr., mocking the conspiracy theorists who claim that the former president’s son did not die in a plane crash in 1999 but is alive, well, and is in hiding because he is Q, as in the head of QAnon).

Read the full article. Twitter allows users to change their display name as often as they want even though the username in the URL remains the same.



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