LogFAQs > #969378866

Not just Twitter, but this whole "Reveal your actual identity on the Internet" thing.

In case you didn't hear, blue checkmarks are on sale for 8 dollars a month. That's it, that's the only thing. Problem is, if I call myself "Elon Musk" and buy a blue checkmark for my name, idiots will assume I am the Elon Musk they happen to think about. So people are running with this gag and making all sorts of fake accounts with blue checkmarks.

It's being seen as a big fumble on Elon's part, even though this isn't even the first time this has happened. Jaboukie Young-White played the same pranks with his own account and nobody freaked out except Twitter themselves. But this time around, someone pretended to be pharmaceuticals company Eli Lilly and Tweeted that insulin was free. This caused their stock to go into a steep nosedive.

But the more I think about this as an old person, I can't help but blame the fact that we put too much stock in random accounts on the Internet. The mistake all along was that any company but Twitter would have an "official" Twitter account. We need to go back to before we did that kind of thing. If Eli Lilly wants to say something on the Internet, it should be through channels they alone own. Not Twitter, not YouTube, just Lilly.com.