Our focus is now on the sweeping overhaul of the social media platform Twitter. New CEO Elon Musk said handles engaging in impersonation, without clearly specifying parody will be permanently suspended. In a tweet posted on Sunday night, Musk said no warning will be given to the impersonators before the suspension of accounts.
He also said that any change in name will result in the temporary loss of the verified batch. On Sunday evening, several accounts that had changed their name to Elon Musk or approximations of Elon Musk appear to be suspended or placed behind a warning sign.
This included those of us comedian Kathy Griffin and the Australian satrapy website The Chaser Musk had previously said that he opposed permanent bans on Twitter now appearing to defend his sweeping bans, Musk tweeted that he was still committed to free speech.
The latest term comes amid reported uncertainty around Twitter’s planned rollout of verification checks for a monthly fee of around eight US dollars, which is a feature of its paid-for Twitter blue service.
The New York Times reported the new feature would be delayed in the United States until after the midterm elections. This came amid concerns that users could buy verification and pretend to be political figures.
And we saw electoral confusion. engineering teams at Twitter are rolling out changes at breakneck speed here this amid the chaos. There are a lot of distress after the dismissal of half of Twitter’s strong workforce.
Several media reports said the dozens who had been laid off had been asked to return this is because they were reportedly either laid off by mistake, or the company had since realized their work was vital to build the new features Musk is seeking.
Elon Musk acquired Twitter last month for 44 billion US dollars. The entrepreneur now has set up a war room in the company’s headquarters in San Francisco where he and his team of advertisers then are scrambling to save costs and push out new products.
Also, in wake of all these uncertainties over Twitter’s overhaul on demand some users have already started shifting to alternative platforms one of the biggest beneficiaries has been Masterton The Social Network says it now has over 655,000 users with over 230,000 having joined in the last week alone.
The platform was six years old but it is current. Its current activity is unprecedented and it is struggling under the weight of new join these other platforms like a troubled social. co-host Tumblr and counter-social are being increasingly talked about as some Twitter users seek other alternatives.
