[jeffwass]

Is the image in the article real?

The image shows a real Elon Musk tweet with a reply by another Blue-Checked Twitter user @joshymcb (Josh McBride), except he changed his display name to Elon Musk (with Unicode variations). His reply had the link to the Bitcoin scam.

If Josh McBride really did that (and wasn’t hacked), how does he still have his Twitter blue check? I was under the impression that Twitter came down hard on people intentionally misleading others by abusing their blue check.

Ie, if have your blue check, you cannot pretend to be someone else.

Update - Josh says his account was hacked : https://twitter.com/joshymcb/status/1371660418444316673?s=21

[pjc50]

Changing your twitter display name should arguably immediately in software invalidate your blue-tick ""verification"" just as you can't rename a website without getting a new certificate. Of course, the real problem is that the blue tick is both arbitrary and meaningless!

[mhh__]

This would've also caught the UK conservative party's trick where they set their Twitter name to "Fact check UK" or similar during a debate. Clever but morally reprehensible.