Published 14:06 IST, November 5th 2022
Elon Musk’s parody account with blue tick tweets lyrics of Bhojpuri song
A verified account on Twitter has started tweeting in Hindi after making the profile look very similar to the real Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s account
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Amid ongoing Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition drama, a verified account of micro-blogging platform has started tweeting in Hindi after making profile look very similar to real Tesla CEO’s account. With similar display names and profile pictures, accounts are identical and differences are hard to spot. When observed closely, actual Musk’s account can be noticed with help of number of followers. Twitter’s owner Elon Musk has 114.1 million Followers while fake account has 91.9K Followers with profile name “@iawoolford”.
Apart from se differences, verified Twitter account posing as Elon Musk started posting a series of tweets in Hindi. Today (November 5), account said in a tweet referring to $8 that Twitter will charge consumers who want a blue tick mark next to ir name to indicate a verified account, “ “Twitter Tere Tukde Honge” gang will also have to pay $8”.
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Has Elon Musk tweeted in Hindi?
Furr, in anor tweet, account said with a meme image, “This bird is sold.”
In subsequent tweets, it posted dialogues from a movie and a line that appeared to be from a song.
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It is, however, not clear who all are behind se tweets and who has created fake account which looks exactly like Elon Musk.
Twitter will charge consumers $8 for blue tick
Meanwhile, according to Elon Musk, Twitter would charge consumers who desire to have a blue tick mark next to ir name to indicate a verified account $8 per month. Musk claimed it was "essential to defeat spam/scam" as part of reforms me after a $44 billion buyout of social media platform, BBC reported.
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Musk said on Twitter, "Power to people! Blue for $8/month," furr slamming old method of blue tick verification as a "lords and peasants system".
Notably, blue tick icon next to any username, which is often reserved for well-known people, is presently free.
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According to BBC report, critics claimed that change may make it more difficult to locate trustworthy sources.
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14:06 IST, November 5th 2022