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In 2021, Twitter posted revenue of $5 billion.
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The blue bird social network registered 7,500 employees in 2021.
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The company was bought by businessman Elon Musk.
Fake accounts continue to be a topic of conversation in the new Twitter directive, because now with the arrival of Elon Musk, the social network has made some changes like changing the font to combat these problems.
Among the data that exists today about Twitter, it can be mentioned that it is one of the most used platforms in the world, and according to estimates in 2023, the number of monthly users of the social network could exceed 340 million, that is, 50 million more than those registered as of 2019, indicate data from its annual report.
the new change
According to various versions, the blue bird application changed the font type of its letter without any notice or notification, which is why various speculations have arisen among specialists about the reason for this decision. and one of them points out that it is a measure to expose the fake profiles that are registered in the social network.
According to the revelations of Molly Whitecreator of the Web3 page is Going Just Great, talked about the change, showing how zero now has a crossed line to distinguish it from the letter O.
“I’m not sure a font change, which still requires people to look closely at the Twitter handle, would make much of a difference, but hey, it probably won’t make anything worse,” White wrote in his explanation.
Likewise, the expert shares that this also happens with other letters, being easier to distinguish a capital i from a lowercase l, to which a small tail was added.
It was learned that this change in the platform led by Musk is a way to complicate the work of those who generate false accounts or copies of other users, since they use special characters, as in the case of numbers, to confuse other people and make them believe that the registered name is the same as the official one.
This change has been perceived by some users in the web version of Twitter, both on desktop and mobile, but not in the mobile application for Android and iOS.
In these changes it can be seen that the source was modified for the names of the users, because in the tweets no alteration is seen at the moment.
Since October, which was the month of Musk’s arrival on Twitter, the platform has presented various tools, such as validating accounts, like Twitter Blue, the premium plan in which users can pay to have their profile verified in a process in which the application verifies their identity with that of the account on the platform.
Likewise, other platforms have also launched changes in their functions, such as Instagram, which showed a new way in its profile photos, or even Facebook, which has new functions in its privacy.
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