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It was an award for being an authentic notable person or entity, on the basis that the notable people and entities were most likely to be parodied or faked. Now

It was an award for being an authentic notable person or entity, on the basis that the notable people and entities were most likely to be parodied or faked. Now it's an award for people that pay up

300bps 4y ago
It was an award for being an authentic notable person or entity Using an arbitrary and biased determinant of who is notable. https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/06/28/twitter-verification-blue-check-yashar-ali-kaivan-shroff https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/06/28/twitter-verifica...
- deleted 4y ago
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- palata 4y ago
  Maybe, but at least the verification seemed meaningful. And it feels like a meaningful verification doesn't generalise well: it's easy to pick a few people (arbitrarily) and truly verify them. But verifying millions of people... that's hard, unless you don't truly verify (in which case it's meaningless).
bombcar 4y ago
It started out as “this is who you expect it is” for things like Obama or Trump, then it became “this is a person who speaks with authority of some sort, listen to them” and now it is just “someone pays eightbux”
- pessimizer 4y ago
  > “this is who you expect it is” Very useful. > “this is a person who speaks with authority of some sort, listen to them” Rather, "this is a person that people at Twitter have blessed with authority. It's astounding that you care what we think." > “someone pays eightbux” To have their identity verified. This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people prefer arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities, and that they look at a simple identity verification service that accepts anyone who is willing to show their papers and pay with absolute contempt. $8 cheapens their pageant award.
  - notahacker 4y ago
    > This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people prefer arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities, and that they look at a simple identity verification service that accepts anyone who is willing to show their papers and pay with absolute contempt. No, they think arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities that attempted to verify people were who they said they were represented a more useful verification service than one which initially made anyone who was willing to pay $8 a "verified" account in the name of a famous person and still doesn't actually check identity. This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people will insist a clusterfuck of such epic proportions they had to suspend it for a month after launch was actually a genius move.
  - platz 4y ago
    > $8 cheapens their pageant award. did you care about the so-called "pageant award"?
  - libraryatnight 4y ago
    It was never a pageant. It was a way for people to know they were following the famous person they wanted to follow and interact with. You're kind of scaring me that there's an actual contingent of humans that felt slighted by the notion nobody cared who they were, but people would like to know they're actually following taylor swift.
- WaxProlix 4y ago
  The tried and true Lowtax approach to monetization. Bon chance, Elon.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Didn’t end terribly well for Lowtax.
  - trafficante 4y ago
    Now I’m imagining a Twitter where you can purchase big red custom titles for your posting enemies.

It was an award for being an authentic notable person or entity, on the basis that the notable people and entities were most likely to be parodied or faked. Now it's an award for people that pay up

300bps 4y ago

It was an award for being an authentic notable person or entity Using an arbitrary and biased determinant of who is notable. https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/06/28/twitter-verification-blue-check-yashar-ali-kaivan-shroff https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/06/28/twitter-verifica...

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palata 4y ago
Maybe, but at least the verification seemed meaningful. And it feels like a meaningful verification doesn't generalise well: it's easy to pick a few people (arbitrarily) and truly verify them. But verifying millions of people... that's hard, unless you don't truly verify (in which case it's meaningless).

bombcar 4y ago

It started out as “this is who you expect it is” for things like Obama or Trump, then it became “this is a person who speaks with authority of some sort, listen to them” and now it is just “someone pays eightbux”

pessimizer 4y ago
> “this is who you expect it is” Very useful. > “this is a person who speaks with authority of some sort, listen to them” Rather, "this is a person that people at Twitter have blessed with authority. It's astounding that you care what we think." > “someone pays eightbux” To have their identity verified. This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people prefer arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities, and that they look at a simple identity verification service that accepts anyone who is willing to show their papers and pay with absolute contempt. $8 cheapens their pageant award.
- notahacker 4y ago
  > This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people prefer arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities, and that they look at a simple identity verification service that accepts anyone who is willing to show their papers and pay with absolute contempt. No, they think arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities that attempted to verify people were who they said they were represented a more useful verification service than one which initially made anyone who was willing to pay $8 a "verified" account in the name of a famous person and still doesn't actually check identity. This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people will insist a clusterfuck of such epic proportions they had to suspend it for a month after launch was actually a genius move.
- platz 4y ago
  > $8 cheapens their pageant award. did you care about the so-called "pageant award"?
- libraryatnight 4y ago
  It was never a pageant. It was a way for people to know they were following the famous person they wanted to follow and interact with. You're kind of scaring me that there's an actual contingent of humans that felt slighted by the notion nobody cared who they were, but people would like to know they're actually following taylor swift.
WaxProlix 4y ago
The tried and true Lowtax approach to monetization. Bon chance, Elon.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Didn’t end terribly well for Lowtax.
- trafficante 4y ago
  Now I’m imagining a Twitter where you can purchase big red custom titles for your posting enemies.