Musk’s hardest troll battle on Twitter is with a Tesla parody account

The account, named Tesla and bearing the deal with @TesIaReal, racked up tens of 1000’s of likes in an eight-hour spree that touched on the carmaker’s security, inventory worth and photo voltaic panels.

One of the standard posts learn: “We will likely be providing 10 thousand autos to assist the Ukrainian navy. Our automobiles are essentially the most superior explosive gadgets available on the market,” whereas one other mentioned: “Everybody’s speaking about Twitter going up in flames however our automobiles did that earlier than it was cool.”

Whereas clearly a parody account — and marked as such after Musk warned the platform would ban these not “clearly recognized” as being so — it however highlights Musk’s downside with model impostors organising fake-but-verified accounts. On Friday he tweeted: “Going ahead, accounts engaged in parody should embody “parody” of their title, not simply in bio.”

Since providing paying subscribers blue test marks, Twitter has confronted a number of impersonation issues. One account claiming to be Nintendo Inc. posted a picture of Tremendous Mario holding up a center finger, whereas one other posing as pharma big Eli Lilly & Co. tweeted that insulin was now free — forcing the corporate to difficulty an apology.

The writing could also be on the wall for rogue posters. In an electronic mail to Twitter workers Wednesday, Musk  wrote: “Over the subsequent few days, absolutely the high precedence is discovering and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam.”  

The Tesla impostor, not less than, senses the top is close to (the account has since been suspended). One submit said: “We experience this til it combusts like a Tesla battery.”