Twitter refused to sell social network verification tokens (blue checkmarks) to users, as fake accounts began to massively buy them. This will be reported by Reuters.
After the innovation with a paid subscription for $ 8 per month, even more fake accounts of Elon Musk's companies Tesla and SpaceX, the online gaming platform Roblox, as well as Nestle and the military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin appeared on the social network. And drug maker Eli Lilly and Company apologized to followers for posting "free insulin" from a fake account with a purchased checkmark.
Musk took over Twitter on October 28, when CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal left the company. The entrepreneur commented on the deal with a tweet: "The bird is free." The entrepreneur himself said that he bought Twitter not for profit, but to maintain a safe platform for communicating on the Internet and avoid a split in social networks.
First, Musk told users that Twitter verification (blue checkmark) would cost $8 despite their objections, and also planned massive layoffs. In early November, Bloomberg found out that Musk plans to lay off about 3,700 employees of the company – that's half the staff. He also sent the first email to the company's employees, in which he banned remote work: now employees must work from the office for at least 40 hours a week, except for special cases. Bloomberg reported that Musk is going to first of all remove the option of "lifetime" blocking of accounts.
