Twitter’s current blue test verification drama took a good sillier flip yesterday. Amid all of the current commotion concerning Twitter Blue subscriptions, paying for blue checks, and impersonation versus parody, some Twitter customers briefly misplaced their capability to edit their display screen names.
On Monday night, some verified Twitter customers started reporting that they couldn’t change their display screen names. It’s unclear to us at the moment if the problem these customers have been experiencing was a bug or a brand new function of a platform that was not too long ago bought by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
I'm immediately unable to take away the (Parody) from my profile title, although I can edit different info in my profile 🙃
— Lauren Goode (Parody) (@LaurenGoode) November 8, 2022
In any case, no matter it was, the problem appears to have resolved now, as a few of these verified customers later reported with the ability to edit their display screen names as soon as once more. (I additionally checked with one in all our editors who has a verified Twitter account, and as of this writing, he mentioned it was working high quality. And for what it’s value, I don’t have a verified Twitter account, however the function nonetheless works for me.) And so in the event you had bother enhancing your Twitter display screen title yesterday, it could be value checking once more to see if it’s working as we speak.
If it was only a bug, it’s horrible timing for the newly Musk-helmed Twitter, which has already skilled fairly the backlash from its personal customers concerning modifications to the platform Musk plans to make, together with a controversial transfer to cost customers $8 per 30 days to have a Twitter blue test badge in any respect. Some customers (together with celebrities) initially responded to the information of Musk’s deliberate modifications by altering their very own Twitter display screen names to “Elon Musk” to make enjoyable of the scenario.
That appeared to result in Musk to reply by asserting new penalties for “impersonation”:
Going ahead, any Twitter handles participating in impersonation with out clearly specifying “parody” will likely be completely suspended
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2022
As of this writing, Twitter’s official Twitter accounts (@Twitter, @TwitterComms, @TwitterAssist and @verified) didn’t put up any tweets that indicated that Twitter was conscious of the display screen title enhancing situation. Digital Trends has reached out to Twitter for touch upon the scenario and we’ll replace this story once we hear again.
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