Ever since the multi-billionaire took over the platform there have been a rash of accounts trying to appear like Musk. Some of them have taken over account names like @e1on_musk or something similar, using the name and photo to tweet out cryptocurrency scams.
If you, like us, pay regular attention to Musk’s Twitter replies, they’re already full of people begging for attention with very spammy and rather scammy crypto promotions, but now these accounts are able to buy themselves a checkmark, which may make it even easier to impersonate Twitter’s “Chief Twit.”
Of course, some fake accounts were ready to take the piss out of Musk, such as @elon_rnusk which said a new “Twitter Gold” would give users “yearly family vacations and nightly dinners with me. If your name is Grimes. Please come back. I love you.”