Surprisingly, things began to go wrong very quickly. A bogus Nintendo account shared a picture of Mario blowing off everyone. A phoney Tony Blair retweeted a phoney George Bush. A legitimate Pope John Paul II account tweeted conspiracy ideas in response to a verified Martin Luther account, which was responding to a verified Pope Francis impostor. Crypto scams were posted by an account impersonating Twitter’s official @verified account. LeBron’s impersonator indicated he wanted to be traded.
Twitter replied by suspending Blue subscriptions for new accounts, although this had no impact on the flood of verified harassment. Fake accounts arose in order for impersonators to engage with one another.
