“To do excitement What did you do to the cars?. This is the advice of influential Spaniard El Rubius, who gives nothing more and nothing less than the new owner of Twitter and Tesla owner Elon Musk, and the opportunity to pass a series of tweets in exchange for payment. verified on this social network.

The South African billionaire took control of Twitter last Tuesday and made some quick announcements. draft amendments are not exempt from discussionon the platform, how to pay eight dollars a month to get the blue seal that authenticates an account.

Complaints about this measure did not last long. they talked about it Prominent – ​​and verified – personalities from around the worldLike American horror writer Stephen King, who in a tweet showed his complete refusal of a verified payment and threatened to leave the social network.

“Damn they should pay me”the author wrote “Flare”Elon Musk replied: “We have to pay the bills somehow!”

El Rubius was the one who expressed his opinion about this new ‘premium’ service that Elon Musk plans to implement in the past hours. most influential young Spaniards, With over 40 million subscribers on Youtube.

Also via Twitter, El Rubius, alias Ruben Doblas Gundersen (Mijas, Malaga, 1990) asked the new owner of the platform what would happen if a random user paid that $8 and changed his name using the same profile picture to impersonate another person who was also verified.

“This happens too often”The businessman, who is also the founder of the space company SpaceX, responded succinctly.

El Rubius is back in the fray, pointing to adding the verified stamp to everyone who pays. “This will increase the problem” and even got the license to advise the richest man in the world: “I’d gladly pay $8 for profile pictures and animated ‘banners’ or more customization in general. Do what you do with cars to Twitter and it should be easy.

And yet, Musk returned to respond to El Rubius, explaining what he plans to do to avoid this identity theft:If verified accounts violate the terms of service, eg spam/scam/phishing will be suspended but Twitter will keep your money!”

Musk also took El Rubius’ glove and assured that they would add it soon. “wonderful things” Like those suggested on Twitter Blue, that’s the name of the premium subscription service that’s on everyone’s lips these days.