Twitter will permanently ban impersonators: Elon Musk

TIL Desk/Business/San Francisco/ Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted that the microblogging site will permanently suspend any account that impersonates another. “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended,” Musk wrote.

In a separate tweet, Musk said Twitter previously issued a warning before suspension, but as Twitter is rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning as well as “no exceptions.” “Previously, we issued a warning before the suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning.

This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue,” he tweeted. He also said that any name change now will cause a temporary loss of the verified checkmarks. “Any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark,” he further tweeted. Comedian Kathy Griffin’s became the first casualty of the move as her account got suspended.