Faced with the multiplication of usurped accounts, Twitter has suspended its new authentication system
“To combat identity theft, we added an official ‘acronym to certain accounts,” tweeted the influential platform, bought on October 28 by Elon Musk for $ 44 billion.
This gray logo appeared under the profile of many advertisers and also, briefly, on the @twitter account. He had been introduced for the first time on Wednesday on the social network on Wednesday but was quickly removed by his new boss, Elon Musk.
The whimsical owner of Tesla and SpaceX has been pushing since his arrival at the head of Twitter for the implementation of another authentication system, billed nearly $ 8 per month. “Twitter Blue” allows anyone to obtain the blue checkping out of authenticity, so far reserved for organizations and people with a certain notoriety. But its introduction this week in the United States was accompanied by an emergence of accounts pretending to be those of celebrities or large companies.
False LeBron James or Joe Biden tweeted on behalf of the basketball star or the President of the United States. The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly had to apologize Thursday after the success of a tweet issued with an account in his name, with the blue check, which promised free insulin. Friday, November 11, it did not seem possible to subscribe to “Twitter Blue” on the site or via the mobile application. An internal memo, published by certain American media, indicates that the service has been suspended “to solve the usurpation problems”.
