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Explain in your own words what "blue check" means
by donkeybeer 5y ago
Explain in your own words what "blue check" means
- 1_player 5y agoVerified accounts
- donkeybeer 5y agoI know what it means, but the one I am responding to isn't, either out of ignorance or deliberately. It doesn't mean anything more or anything less than that these people are verified to be who they claim they are. But the person above is trying to indicate it means some kind of "endorsement" by some vague "establishment" that he dislikes.
- pcmoney 5y agoBlue checks typically mean large (sometimes rabid) twitter followings. Sometimes that’s fine but often their engagement in a topic can really derail it. Blue checks in practice mean more than just “verified account”. Side note: anonymity can often improve the quality of online discussion. See: “breaking the social media prism”
- pcmoney 5y agoCould have been more clear on that. Some of the accounts I follow are blue checks. What I meant is blue checks that are using their popularity to critique/support another issue very far afield of why they are a blue check. Eg. Famous actor advocating for some luxury belief
- donkeybeer 5y agoThen "blue check" is completely incidental to the matter, and the real issue is that it is a very popular person. The same issue would exist for any popular user whether or not their account is blue checked.
- pcmoney 5y agoSure but it very rare for an account with substantial follower numbers not to be a blue check (unless they became prominent during a time when Twitter had suspended the verification program for new blue checks). Blue checks also get recommended as people to follow more which inflates their numbers so it is a feedback cycle. I would wager that a blue check on Twitter is more valuable and monetizable than most 4 yr degrees.