The problem is that it was always at the whim of some opaque internal Twitter process. There always should have been an actual process for anyone to be verified

The problem is that it was always at the whim of some opaque internal Twitter process. There always should have been an actual process for anyone to be verified. It creates resentment when the criteria for verification are not transparent. Is this going to fix it? No, one of two things will happen: (1) Musk will end up with a gigantic tax write-off when he sells what’s left of Twitter to Verizon for 140M two years from now. (2) Musk will turn it into something that is successful by some definition but isn’t Twitter and no longer commands the same attention from the world at large.