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Twitter Verification Is Meaningless
- frobozz 11y ago> But it goes further. “Being verified doesn't just verify that you are who you say you are; it verifies that you are, by some slightly mysterious criteria, important,” Not only that, but more important than other people with the same name. There are at least five people with my real name on Twitter. One of them is an obscure TV actor, and is verified. This sort of implies that the rest of us are impostors (despite at least one of us actually being important in his field)
- MatthewWilkes 11y agoThe most important part of being verified is that being verified also gives you an additional filter for interactions, only showing those from other verified accounts. If you consider the amount of junk @mentions public figures get, this lets them interact with (many of) their colleagues in the same way that normal people can.