{"id":7827,"date":"2022-11-11T19:37:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/twitter-blue-check-unavailable-after-imposter-accounts-erupt-on-platform\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T19:37:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:37:42","slug":"twitter-blue-check-unavailable-after-imposter-accounts-erupt-on-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/twitter-blue-check-unavailable-after-imposter-accounts-erupt-on-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter blue check unavailable after imposter accounts erupt on platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Elon Musk took over the badge was granted to celebrities and journalists verified by the platform to prevent impersonation<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s relaunched premium service \u2013 which grants blue check verification labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month \u2013 was unavailable on Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts approved by Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Before billionaire Elon Musk took control of the social media platform two weeks ago the blue check was granted to celebrities and journalists verified by the platform \u2013 precisely to prevent impersonation. Now, anyone can get one as long as they have a phone, a credit card and $8 a month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/11\/twitter-blue-check-verification-impostor-accounts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dd1a7155442c0678925bd4e7ba542020e77d25ff\/0_0_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2466151830c8f626570eafff95833f28\" title=\"Twitter blue check unavailable after imposter accounts erupt on platform\" \/>Before Elon Musk took over the badge was granted to celebrities and journalists verified by the platform to prevent impersonation<br \/>\nTwitter\u2019s relaunched premium service \u2013 which grants blue check verification labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month \u2013 was unavailable on Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts approved by Twitter.<br \/>\nBefore billionaire Elon Musk took control of the social media platform two weeks ago the blue check was granted to celebrities and journalists verified by the platform \u2013 precisely to prevent impersonation. Now, anyone can get one as long as they have a phone, a credit card and $8 a month. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Elon Musk took over the badge was granted to celebrities and journalists verified by the platform to prevent impersonation Twitter\u2019s relaunched premium service \u2013 which grants blue check verification labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month \u2013 was unavailable on Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/twitter-blue-check-unavailable-after-imposter-accounts-erupt-on-platform\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter blue check unavailable after imposter accounts erupt on platform<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}