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This almost makes me wonder if "Verified" accounts is a step in the wrong direction. Imagine a twitter where you actually have no way of knowing whether an acc

This almost makes me wonder if "Verified" accounts is a step in the wrong direction. Imagine a twitter where you actually have no way of knowing whether an account is "real" or not. Perhaps people then would take it far less seriously, and the only safe approach for a celebrity to take would be to say "we don't use Twitter" via other channels. Well, then again, that would be Twitter shooting itself in the foot.

dvtrn 8y ago
This almost makes me wonder if "Verified" accounts is a step in the wrong direction. I've had similar thoughts. My account is "verified", because it was pretty easy to get that blue tick mark. Make my tweets open, and...that was pretty much it. Just wait around a while for the review process. Unknown if that process is more difficult or involved nowadays, but when I did it? I just asked and they gave.