> This was a dumpster fire of Twitter's own doing. 100% agreed. I was no fan of the old system. But regardless of the arbitrary criteria for being eligible for

> This was a dumpster fire of Twitter's own doing. 100% agreed. I was no fan of the old system. But regardless of the arbitrary criteria for being eligible for verification, at least they did attempt to verify that the account matched the identity of its operator at the point in time that it was verified. There were stores of verified accounts falling into the wrong hands, but AFAIK there weren't cases of twitter incorrectly verifying an account belonging to someone else. > I don't like the idea that just because they were used in a particular way before, a private platform is forever bound by that. I'm not just talking about inertia, they literally use the copy "this account is verified" on my profile, today, when they have done nothing to verify my identity. There are levels of subjectivity over what is considered "verified", but to me it implies at least some basic attempt at identity verification.