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Sometimes people are famous under a username or pseudonym. Also Twitter generally verifies people at risk of being impersonated. It doesn't matter if you know w
by Tenoke 4y ago
Sometimes people are famous under a username or pseudonym. Also Twitter generally verifies people at risk of being impersonated. It doesn't matter if you know who say CZ is but if thousands of people would pretend to be him and others will fall for it it helps to verify who the real one is.
Though clearly they should disable name changing post verification or something so the checkmark itself doesn't help to impersonate others.
- pessimizer 4y agoAnd sometimes famous blue checks have an id that is unrelated to any name they have been known by, and a display name unrelated to any name they have been known by. I know this because I follow people like this. I know who they are verified to be, but that name is nowhere associated with their account. Which is why I said that.