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I always find it kind of odd when someone is verified on twitter but only has a few thousand followers. The impression it leaves is almost worse than not being verified at all.


All it means is that someone verified their identity. They are generally for people that have shown people try to copy their profile to fool others.

Nothing to do with popularity, that correlation comes from the likelyhood of impersonation.

But yes, also vanity.


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Its just as often people that like to show their bodies as well as software developers, so bad take. Your observation happens, but you're reading way too far into it.


>people that like to show their bodies as well as software developers

I really dont understand what you mean.

>Your observation happens, but you're reading way too far into it.

I also dont understand this lol. So you admit this happens but just don't think I should care that much? Well I do care about the rich parlaying their wealth into political power by buying up newspapers and social media companies ala Jeff Bezos and Jared Kushner and the Qutaris and I would hope you do too.


After brands, verified accounts are mostly models, sex workers, followed by vain people that are closest to the verification database

Journals and newscasters would then be much smaller

I don’t have any other opinion on the matter (or quantitative sources)


People were absolutely getting verified because they knew somebody who worked at Twitter. Old boy gang stuff.


Or on the other hand refuses to verify very well known people such as Assange.


I know verified people who were in the JS / webdev scene in 2010 and are verified because they knew someone who worked at Twitter.


This parody is so accurate it hurts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8CpIJpmqw ('how twitter verification works' by Gus Johnson)


…why? It ought to just mean they had their ID verified. That’s it.




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