Twitter Blue Verified Impersonations / Parody Accounts

Twitter Blue Verified Impersonationsor Twitter Blue Check Parody Accountsrefers to a November 2022 wave of Twitterusersspending $8 for a blue, "verified" checkmarkin order to impersonate high-profile public figures and postmisinformationas that figure. The wave is widely seen as a means to taunt Elon Musk'sidea to incentivize people to spend money on the app by allowing them to pay $8 a month to be verified on Twitter. This made it so that both notable public figures and members of the general public could have Twitter's blue "verified" checkmark appear next to their name, with no immediately obvious visual distinction between the two. Memers took advantage of that to create "verified" accounts for notable public figures,including Musk himself, and then post confusing false statements and jokes. Scams also appeared using this method around the same timeframe.