Twitter’s modifications to its confirmation system suggests it’s now a lot easier to produce a phony account and pretend you’re a significant video games business.
We’re not going to get into all the insanity of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter due to the fact that it’s all too depressingly dumb, however the changes in how the verified blue ticks work is currently causing turmoil because it’s made it much easier to fake an official account.
We assume this must be happening in all sorts of different areas, but in gaming it’s meant that for the paltry sum of £6.99 you can get a verified tick that makes it look like fake accounts for big name companies like Nintendo and Valve are real.
That’s led to not only a ton of fake news but things like the doctored image of Mario giving his fans the bird. The Twitter handle of @nintendoofus is obviously not real but the name was listed as Nintendo of America and by paying for the blue tick it suddenly looked official to casual observers.
Twitter does seem to have realised the problem, as the blue tick has been removed at time of writing, along with most of the Nintendo related posts, but otherwise the account is still up and running.
Naturally, this had led to all sorts of other tomfoolery, with a fake Rockstar Games account claiming that GTA 6 is going to be unveiled next week and a fake Valve one announcing Ricochet: Neon Prime.
Then there’s a fake Twitch account that pretended that the controversial subscription model has been changed. At time of writing that one still has a blue tick, perhaps because the handle is @twitchparody
Up until now, the majority of the posts have actually been pretty good humoured however that might quickly alter and the Valve one in specific got countless likes by the end, most likely from individuals who believed it was genuine.
For a couple of hours the other day there was an ‘Authorities’ tag for validated accounts, in addition to simply the blue tick, however that entire principle was dumped prior to completion of the day.
As long Elon Musk continues to imitate Lex Luther’s moron bro this sort of thing will likely continue, so be really cautious about what news you select to think on Twitter, as it might not have actually originated from the source you presume.
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