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I'm an uncool dad but thought the check mark was like, this account really is the famous person the account claims to be, like Brad Pitt or Oprah. Now it's alwa
by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I'm an uncool dad but thought the check mark was like, this account really is the famous person the account claims to be, like Brad Pitt or Oprah. Now it's always someone I've never heard of.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoFamous to who though and how famous? I recently clicked through to a profile of someone I had never heard of and they had 5m+ followers. This isn't a "look how out of touch I am with pop culture" humblebrag they were just from a different part of the world, famous in a language I don't speak. And maybe not too similar but the mayor of my city only has a couple tens of thousands of followers but is definitely known by everyone who lives in it and yes has a blue check. How famous is famous enough isn't a question with an obvious, or single answer.
- swid 4y agoMy brother in law has a blue check. He writes comic blogs and wrote a book about them, so he does have a public persona. But he has less than 5000 followers and he is certainly not famous.
- rdl 4y agoAlso a bunch of early Twitter employees or their friends with low-follower Verified accounts. It's not consistent.
- chunkyguy 4y agoA famous person in one region is an unknown in another.