SNAP: According to Elon Musk, Twitter will permanently ban users who create phony accounts.

'Any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark.'

SNAP: According to Elon Musk, Twitter will permanently ban users who create phony accounts.
  • Before acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk said he was against lifetime suspensions, promising to reinstate banned users like Donald Trump.
  • Now, Musk wrote that Twitter will permanently suspend account impersonators if they are not clearly labeled as parody.
  • The move comes after several verified "blue-check" users changed their accounts to impersonal Musk himself.
  • Comedy performer Kathy Griffin used Musk's name and image on her own verified Twitter account, and Twitter appears to have now temporarily banned her for impersonating him.
  • Other verified accounts impersonating Musk, including Jeph Jacques, also appear to have been kicked off the site.
  • In reply to a user who suggested a boycott on those companies, Musk tweeted a "a thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues."

Source: Engadget