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		landr0id on Sept 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The spam on Twitter >2. However, once an account gets the blue check, the owner is free to change the profile pic and display name, and the blue check doesn't go away. afaik twitter will remove your verification status if you do this maliciously. Like trying to impersonate a famous person and make it look like they're saying something stupid.

datagram on Sept 14, 2022 [–]

Yeah but as the OP shows, this probably happens much too late to stop harm if it happens at all.

Just checked, and the account from the screenshot is still around and still verified.

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