Twitter is in turmoil proper now. The social media platform has run into a number of points since being bought by Elon Musk. One of many issues is that Twitter now has two verification techniques, solely considered one of which truly verifies authentic accounts.
In the mean time, Twitter Blue subscribers have a test mark seem subsequent to their account, even when they’re parody accounts or impersonators. Some real manufacturers have an “official” badge as nicely, however that solely seems in sure areas of Twitter. The result’s confusion on-line, in addition to some pranks like a pretend Nintendo account with a blue test sharing a picture of Mario displaying his center finger.
To handle the difficulty, a developer created a browser extension referred to as eight-dollar that differentiates between Twitter Blue test marks and verified accounts.
An instance of a real Twitter account and a pretend Twitter account when working eight-dollars (Picture credit score: waltzaround by way of GitHub)
The extension is on the market on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Fortunately for Edge customers, Microsoft’s browser can set up Chrome extensions. Getting eight-dollars onto Edge would require some further work, nonetheless.
