They used a very old trick - a lowercase "L" for the "I": PEPLCO.
Twitter ad-sales reps have had to resort to tweeting at Elon asking to remove fake company accounts.
This is like how people used to go on Fox News to talk to Trump.
if you are a twitter dev, before you get fired, try to make Unicode characters (or at least sneak in Cyrillic а and other look alikes) valid in a twitter handle
That would cause a gigantic amount of damage to Twitter in just a short time.
Is President Biden (@PΟTUS) kosher? Is it actually the President Of The United States? Or is it President Omicron The United States - whoever they are.
President Omicron The United States - whoever they are
:corona-whitehouse: coming in 2024
wat u mean? ever since i was small children in united state, i have forever love drinking Pepi. now that i am an adult human, i have switch to Diet Pepi. it is choice of a Nu Generator.
mia nona make a de molto bene pepi for all the paisans from avellino!! abondanza!
:anti-italian-action: 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹
Surely something like this costs Twitter and PepsiCo way more than $8, right? This would be a big deal even if the accounts only lasted 30 minutes, I wonder how much longer the site will last
Jokes are one thing. But I think Twitter is a hive of scammers and grifters right now. I'll share something I shared before because it blows my mind...
It took me less than 25 minutes to set up a fake anonymous Apple ID using a VPN and disposable email, attach a masked debit card to it (with the address being Twitter's HQ), and get a verified account for a prominent figure. Just think what a nation-state or bad actor could do...
Imagine somebody creates @RealCharIieSheen - in other words
@realchariiesheenand tweets out...Hey, guys - we got into a bar fight so we're in the slammer in Tijuana. We want to get outta here and have some tacos and more beer. But I don't have any cash. Send me some crypto. :)
In all the Twitter chaos - could the scammer make at least a few hundreds bucks? Or even a few thousand? More? I think so.
Eli Lily and Co, plus a couple other insulin manufacturers, are down like 20 billion at the moment due to them having to damage control after someone pretended to be them, got verified, and said they would be giving insulin away for free
Similar situation happened with Lockheed Martin lmao
So, yeah, seems like an issue
Apparently big advertising agencies are advising their clients not to do Twitter ads at the moment. Companies doesn't want their brands to be associated with this dumpster fire.
Would be even better if there was a follow-up tweet that said
When we said Coke, we meant cocaine
:party-sicko:
