{"id":9719,"date":"2023-04-22T05:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T03:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/22\/fake-accounts-chaos-and-few-sign-ups-the-first-day-of-twitter-blue-was-messy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T05:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T03:38:36","slug":"fake-accounts-chaos-and-few-sign-ups-the-first-day-of-twitter-blue-was-messy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/22\/fake-accounts-chaos-and-few-sign-ups-the-first-day-of-twitter-blue-was-messy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake accounts, chaos and few sign-ups: the first day of Twitter Blue was messy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to make the social media site profitable seemed to flop as the verification check lost all meaning<\/p>\n<p>Friday marked the first full day Twitter\u2019s new policies for verified accounts were applied \u2013 and the results were not pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four hours after blue checkmarks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/20\/twitter-blue-checks-disappear-legacy-accounts-elon-musk\">began to disappear<\/a> from formerly verified Twitter accounts, chaos reigned on the website, with impersonation and false information running rampant and few people signing up for the service the changes were meant to promote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/21\/elon-musk-twitter-blue-rollout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bad40eac244f5c8b86e485f0e429b78f951febcf\/0_274_4621_2773\/master\/4621.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=70f0407dfde37ca3b4af8c7f901db6fa\" title=\"Fake accounts, chaos and few sign-ups: the first day of Twitter Blue was messy\" \/>Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to make the social media site profitable seemed to flop as the verification check lost all meaning<br \/>\nFriday marked the first full day Twitter\u2019s new policies for verified accounts were applied \u2013 and the results were not pretty.<br \/>\nTwenty-four hours after blue checkmarks began to disappear from formerly verified Twitter accounts, chaos reigned on the website, with impersonation and false information running rampant and few people signing up for the service the changes were meant to promote. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to make the social media site profitable seemed to flop as the verification check lost all meaning Friday marked the first full day Twitter\u2019s new policies for verified accounts were applied \u2013 and the results were not pretty. Twenty-four hours after blue checkmarks began to disappear from formerly verified Twitter accounts, chaos &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/22\/fake-accounts-chaos-and-few-sign-ups-the-first-day-of-twitter-blue-was-messy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake accounts, chaos and few sign-ups: the first day of Twitter Blue was messy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9720,"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\/9719"}],"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=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}