{"id":149621,"date":"2022-11-07T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-threatens-to-boot-twitter-account-impersonators"},"modified":"2022-11-07T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:22:21","slug":"elon-musk-threatens-to-boot-twitter-account-impersonators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-threatens-to-boot-twitter-account-impersonators","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk threatens to boot Twitter account impersonators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-threatens-to-boot-twitter-account-impersonators2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another.<\/p>\n<p>The platform\u2019s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names \u2014 not their account names \u2014 and tweeted as \u2018Elon Musk\u2019 in reaction to the billionaire\u2019s decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 month as he simultaneously laid off a big chunk of the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying \u201cparody\u201d will be permanently suspended,\u201d Musk wrote. While Twitter previously issued warnings before suspensions, now that it is rolling out \u201cwidespread verification, there will be no warning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another. The platform\u2019s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names \u2014 not their account names \u2014 and tweeted as \u2018Elon Musk\u2019 in reaction to the billionaire\u2019s decision to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}