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Crummy Buzzfeed content drones with 5000 followers are getting verified. Verification ticks are just a badge of being well connected, and approved. And having

• 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.