Twitter will lock your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk

Posted by taytus on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:32PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17610348/twitter-elon-musk-display-name-change-lock-account-crypto-scams

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Re:Twitter will lock your account if you change your display... by kayamon on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:17PM (#17628983)

Good. For every real Elon Musk tweet, there'll be one fake reply right underneath with some thief trying to scam the unwary into sending Bitcoin somewhere. Glad to see Twitter cracking down on it.

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Re:Twitter will lock your account if you change your display... by minimaxir on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:39PM (#17606087)

This is an example of hardcoding a bug fix instead of addressing the underlying bug.

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Re:Twitter will lock your account if you change your display... by lizardskull on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:56PM (#17606180)

I wonder if anything would happen if you changed your display name to Musk Elon.

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Re:Twitter will lock your account if you change your display... by bradknowles on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:29PM (#17606304)

I wonder what would happen if you used other character sets....

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