{"id":1247055,"date":"2022-11-09T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/medikals-twitter-account-suspended-for-impersonating-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:27:09","slug":"medikals-twitter-account-suspended-for-impersonating-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/medikals-twitter-account-suspended-for-impersonating-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Medikal&#8217;s Twitter account suspended for &#8216;impersonating&#8217; Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Days ago, Twitter\u2019s new owner Elon Musk announced his intention to ban accounts pretending to be someone else without flagging them as parody pages.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Ghanaian musician, Medikal, has fallen victim to the new modality on the microblogging website.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, his Twitter account was suspended for cloning President Akufo-Addo after he made a few changes to his public profile.<\/p>\n<p>He changed his username to Mr. President and his image to that of the President. However, he maintained his handle @AMGMedical.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FhGs8OmXkAA9x8h.jpg\" alt=\"Medikal's Twitter account suspended for 'impersonating' Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032205554 lazy\"  data- title=\"Medikal's Twitter account suspended for 'impersonating' Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Moments after these adjustments, the award-winning rapper\u2019s account was suspended.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"860\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1667982429_819_image-114.png\" alt=\"Medikal's Twitter account suspended for 'impersonating' Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032205542 lazy\"  data- title=\"Medikal's Twitter account suspended for 'impersonating' Akufo-Addo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>It is not clear whether the ban had something to do with Twitter\u2019s new policy, but per Elon\u2019s earlier hint, social media is awash with multiple theories.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter is really not playing with the impersonation. Free Medikal<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DJ Paak (@djpaak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djpaak\/status\/1590142595313070080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On November 6, Elon Musk tweeted that, \u201cGoing forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying \u201cparody\u201d will be permanently suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can\u2019t blame Beno, Elon Musk gave the warning but Medikal was busily driving his new BMW\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s3EfpHaPDj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/s3EfpHaPDj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kojo Komm\u025bnt \uf8ff \ud83d\udc89\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded (@benbenaqua) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benbenaqua\/status\/1590247992241827843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The firebrand further added that there would be \u201cno warning\u201d ahead of the suspension, adding that any name change will also result in people losing their verification badge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. <\/p>\n<p>This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1589396236464898048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elon\u2019s dramatic changes on the social network have left speculation since his takeover.<\/p>\n<p>From charging $8 for a verification badge to laying off about 50% of the workforce including the newly-opened Accra office staff, the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/medikals-twitter-account-suspended-for-impersonating-akufo-addo\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days ago, Twitter\u2019s new owner Elon Musk announced his intention to ban accounts pretending to be someone else without flagging them as parody pages. It seems Ghanaian musician, Medikal, has fallen victim to the new modality on the microblogging website. On Tuesday night, his Twitter account was suspended for cloning President Akufo-Addo after he made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4403,648,10814,16574,1318,136],"class_list":["post-1247055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-account","tag-akufoaddo","tag-impersonating","tag-medikals","tag-suspended","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}