Critics of the move have noted that it could make impersonation and fraud all the more feasible.
As comedian and documentarian W. Kamau Bell noted, the change certainly alters the dynamic on the platform.
It has become an object of utter mockery.
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Quite a remarkable achievement, really.
All have followings in the tens of millions.
