Elon Musk threatens to block fake Twitter accounts permanently.

 Boston: Elon Musk stated on Sunday that any Twitter account that impersonates another will have its account permanently suspended.

After some celebrities changed their Twitter display names, not their account names, and tweeted as "Elon Musk," the platform's new owner issued the warning in response to the billionaire's decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 per month while he concurrently laid off a significant portion of the workforce.

Any Twitter accounts using impersonation in the future without explicitly stating "parody" will be permanently suspended, Musk tweeted. Prior to suspensions, Twitter would provide warnings, but when it begins to use "widespread verification, there will be no warning."

In fact, the richest man in the world claimed that "any name change at all" would necessitate the temporary loss of a confirmed checkmark.

Following the change of her screen name to Musk on Sunday, comedian Kathy Griffin had her account terminated. She admitted using his profile picture to a Bloomberg reporter.

Apparently, not all content moderators were fired. Lol," Griffin quipped on Mastodon, an alternative social networking site where she recently created an account.

Similar to Valerie Bertinelli, who used Musk's screen name to tweet in support of Democratic candidates on Saturday before returning to her real name. “Okey-dokey. I had a good time, and I believe I got my point across," she tweeted later.

Bertinelli noted the original intent behind the blue verification tick prior to the prank. It was given away for free to those whose identities Twitter personnel had verified, with journalists making up a sizable share of the receivers. It merely meant that your identity has been confirmed. It would be more difficult for scammers to pose as you, according to Bertinelli.

"That is no longer true. Good luck in your endeavours! Added she.

Musk believes that the $8 verified accounts are his strategy for making the service more accessible. Users who "sign up now" for the new "Twitter Blue with verification" can obtain the blue check next to their names "exactly like the celebrities, companies, and politicians you currently follow," according to a Twitter update for iOS devices posted on Apple's app store on Saturday.

It stated that the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK would be the first countries to offer the service. On the other hand, there was no indication of when it would roll out and it was not accessible on Sunday. Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee, told The Associated Press that it would start "soon," but not yet.

An email sent to Twitter on Sunday asking for comments on the verified accounts problem and Griffin's ban received no response.

Later, Musk tweeted, "Twitter needs to emerge as the world's most reliable information source. That is our goal.

Disinformation on the site during Tuesday's midterm elections may increase if the corporation decided to remove blue checks from current verified users, which hasn't happened.

Following layoffs that apparently affected approximately half of Twitter's 7,500 employees and started on Friday, some users of the social media network have already started switching to Counter Social, which is another well-liked alternative. Griffin is not the only one of these people who has done this. They worry that a breakdown in moderation and verification could lead to a disinformation free-for-all on what has previously been the primary channel for trustworthy communications from governmental organisations and other institutions on the internet.

Because they were worried that Musk would make the site more chaotic, many businesses stopped running ads on it.

In a post on Friday, Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of safety and integrity, attempted to allay these worries. He said that the group least impacted by the job losses was the company's front-line content moderation staff.

Musk stated in a late-Friday tweet that job cuts were necessary "when the company is losing over $4M/day." He said staff were granted three months' pay as severance when they lost their employment, but he did not go into specifics about Twitter's daily losses.