How am I supposed to mark myself as parody if I can’t change my screen name, Elon?

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I can't change my screen name on Twitter. I can change my bio. But not my screen name. So although I was helpfully trying to describe myself as Elizabeth Lopatto (parody)" that simply wasn't possible.

TFW Twitter is broken

Now I hear Elon Musk fired about 50 percent of Twitter employees (though apparently he's trying to hire some of them back). I also hear that lots of people have been changing their screen names to Elon Musk" in order to get excommunicated. According to David Sacks, an investor in Musk's deal to take Twitter private, Twitter's longstanding policy is that the account name must indicate a parody account." Unfortunately, I can't comply.

Anyway Sacks, who is part of a war room" of advisors helping...

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