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When will Twitter re-open verifying? It's been closed for 2 years...

• uptown 7y ago
  They still do it when they want to.
• slig 7y ago
  People with the right connections are getting verified.
• apostacy 7y ago
  Crummy Buzzfeed content drones with 5000 followers are getting verified. Verification ticks are just a badge of being well connected, and approved. And having your tick removed is a way of saying that you have stepped out of line.
  • cameronbrown 7y ago
    That's what worries me about verified. It's just a form of nepotism at the end of the day and they certainly prefer certain niches (Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the media industry, etc..) over others.
    • cwkoss 7y ago
      Also seems verified is fairly correlated with certain political ideologies - kind of feels like twitter is trying to direct conversation without taking responsibility for bias.
      • Faark 7y ago
        That sounds like the usual persecution complex of the anti establishment/alt right. If that where the case, Twitter would be very shitty at such job, since countless of them are verified. Notably including alex jones up to his ban.
        • cwkoss 7y ago
          Journalists of major publications and celebrities are pretty evenly verified. Maybe it's just the circles I follow, but I encounter a lot of random 'liberal centrist with a podcast who has written 2 op eds'-types that seem to be more famous on twitter than anywhere else.
• input_sh 7y ago
  It's open, it's just that they no longer accept public requests.