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Twitter could have avoided so many problems by sticking to verification as they advertised it - that the blue check mark just meant you were who you said you we
by gozur88 9y ago
Twitter could have avoided so many problems by sticking to verification as they advertised it - that the blue check mark just meant you were who you said you were and nothing more. It should have provided no benefits other than followers know they're following the right person.
Using it as a stamp of approval is an absolute minefield for a public company. So far the competition is, well, incompetent, but eventually somebody's going to come along and take advantage of these kinds of mistakes.
- topgunsarg 9y agoThey could just have a second badge like LinkedIn does for "influencer" or something of the like, that would convey the current benefits of the verification badge.
- anigbrowl 9y agoWhich would be subject to all the problems with the Verification checkmark...
- faceplanted 9y agoYes, but it would at least stop getting in the way of Twitter's usability like the current button does, they could verify all the celebrities and political activists that they haven't yet who people want them to, and then they could go bestowing perks on people they like, or pay them money.
- jeffmould 9y agoOr like Facebook has with two different levels/color verification checkmarks. A gray check for verified business which doesn't mean much other than they verified a phone number, or a blue check for verified person/business/etc.. of greater importance.
- jxramos 9y agoGood point, seems like a failure to decouple independent concepts. Bad design, bad implementation.
- ForHackernews 9y agoSeems par for the course for the company that's always mixed data and metadata.