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verification has always been an arbitrary label, placed upon an account by someone inside Twitter (generally because they like you).
by riffic 4y ago
verification has always been an arbitrary label, placed upon an account by someone inside Twitter (generally because they like you).
- yieldcrv 4y agosort of. that also happens. check marks look tied to popularity, leading one to wonder why arbitrarily less popular accounts have check marks. "it couldn't be anything besides connections could it?" its natural to wonder that way. the reason exceptions to popularity resulted in blue checkmarks is because the popularity was only a correlation. the likelihood of your account being impersonated is a primary driver of verification. so impersonation is the cause, this is correlated to a desire to want to impersonate which is tied to popularity, but nobody needs to be popular to be impersonated. there is also a way to game that by... causing the impersonation yourself. I would say that its coincidence people place any desire and covet on verification. Without that, the 'controversy' disappears and it is replaced by utility and consumer protection.