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Re:A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and ... by ar_lan on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:01PM (#22446326)
I've never understood the goal of it. It feels like they claim it's to help those in the public eye that might frequently be targets of harassment or fraudulent copy-cat accounts, but AFAICT it's just a way to declare someone "popular" (or just blatantly handed out to people who have friends at Twitter).

It's just another way to separate people arbitrarily for no real reason.

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Re:A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and ... by simion314 on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:14PM (#22446908)
There are many scammers/malicious/deceitful people that made accounts for celebrities and attempted to scam(or other bad crap) people. So there is a group of people at risk of getting impersonated and a solution is needed for this but it seems Twitter does not have it.
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Re:A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and ... by lonelappde on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:38PM (#22447447)
That's the blue checkmark
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Re:A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and ... by simion314 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @10:54AM (#22451145)
Yes the checkmark should be the solution in theory but it seems from this article that it is not implemented correctly.
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Re:A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and ... by daeken on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:14PM (#22446428)
FWIW, when I got my blue checkmark I had something like 6k followers; not exactly a popular account. I did it because there were some copycat accounts and I was dealing with some nasty harassment. The process was painless and it helped a whole hell of a lot in the end.
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