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>You pay a certain amount of money, for say, 10,000 followers and expand your network. You didn’t have to post good content or had to wait for a few years. You

>You pay a certain amount of money, for say, 10,000 followers and expand your network. You didn’t have to post good content or had to wait for a few years. You solved both the problems by throwing money at the problem. >With this expanded network, you apply to Twitter to verify your profile and Twitter obliges and marks your profile as verified and gives you the verified checkmark. Being a verified user, the possibilities are now endless This whole blog is just based in a fictional world unconnected to reality Having a blue check mark didn't give anybody anything except pride and letting people know it was the person with the name. It didn't bring you followers or fame. Having a bunch of bot followers isn't going to get you verified either.

tifa2up 4y ago
ex-Twitter engineer here. +1 to this, having a bunch of bot followers wouldn't get you verified. There are internal metrics that show what % of followers are likely bots and other metrics are taken into consideration.
- thallavajhula 4y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/12vn9re/twitter_automatically_verified_all_accounts_with/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/12vn9re/twitter_au...
jjj123 4y ago
Having a check mark does promote your tweets in various ways, though. It’s definitely a force multiplier. Replies from verified accounts would show up higher in the replies list, and replies dunking on bad tweets was (is?) a good way to get a bunch of like minded followers. See every grifter in 2016 replying to every one of Trump’s tweets for clout.