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Is there an account successfully impersonating George Bush now? Can you link to it? My experience has been that there have been a TON of impersonators over the

Is there an account successfully impersonating George Bush now? Can you link to it? My experience has been that there have been a TON of impersonators over the past 5 years, and the largest number I've come across have been impersonating Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin. Trusting all blue checks a year ago would have been a very, very foolish strategy. From what I've seen, the verification hasn't gotten at all worse in the last week.

ncallaway 4y ago
> Trusting all blue checks a year ago would have been a very, very foolish strategy. Trust is a spectrum, and the old system wasn’t perfect, but it was vastly vastly better. I wouldn’t have absolute trust that an account was who it purported to be before, but I had much higher confidence that I did before. > From what I've seen, the verification hasn't gotten at all worse in the last week. Then we’ve had vastly different experiences. Did you miss the part where he sold verification for $8, but stopped doing the verification as part of that? It seems preposterous to claim nothing changed in this regard, while they literally introduced a new feature that entirely changed this aspect of the product. Edit: to clarify, I don’t think it’s preposterous to claim that your experience is better or unchanged in the new system. What seems preposterous to me is the claim that it’s unchanged from a month ago, when this specific area has undergone a drastic functional change.
- AlchemistCamp 4y ago
  It may seem preposterous to you, but none of the few hundred accounts I follow have had a change in verification status. I haven't seen a sudden surge in strangers in my feed with them, either. I also haven't seen an uptick in attempted scams. If anything, the number of fake Vitaliks and fake Elons with blue checks running scams (usually starting with an offer to give away crypto) I've stumbled across has been lower than it was early in the year. Perhaps there will be large changes over time due to the more open verification process recently announced, but they would take time to ripple out and have any impact on us more normal users.

ncallaway 4y ago

> Trusting all blue checks a year ago would have been a very, very foolish strategy. Trust is a spectrum, and the old system wasn’t perfect, but it was vastly vastly better. I wouldn’t have absolute trust that an account was who it purported to be before, but I had much higher confidence that I did before. > From what I've seen, the verification hasn't gotten at all worse in the last week. Then we’ve had vastly different experiences. Did you miss the part where he sold verification for $8, but stopped doing the verification as part of that? It seems preposterous to claim nothing changed in this regard, while they literally introduced a new feature that entirely changed this aspect of the product. Edit: to clarify, I don’t think it’s preposterous to claim that your experience is better or unchanged in the new system. What seems preposterous to me is the claim that it’s unchanged from a month ago, when this specific area has undergone a drastic functional change.

AlchemistCamp 4y ago
It may seem preposterous to you, but none of the few hundred accounts I follow have had a change in verification status. I haven't seen a sudden surge in strangers in my feed with them, either. I also haven't seen an uptick in attempted scams. If anything, the number of fake Vitaliks and fake Elons with blue checks running scams (usually starting with an offer to give away crypto) I've stumbled across has been lower than it was early in the year. Perhaps there will be large changes over time due to the more open verification process recently announced, but they would take time to ripple out and have any impact on us more normal users.