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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by vmception on Monday April 25, 2022 @08:06PM (#31162472)
Verification (on all the big social networks) is only[1] for people that get impersonated, this is correlated to fame, but not the cause.

A lot of people get this mixed up! but it more adequately explains low-follower outliers.

[1] only-ish

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by ryanbrunner on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:54AM (#31165911)
That's the reason that social media companies do this, but in practice among the users it becomes a status symbol (see: anyone campaigning to get a blue check on twitter)
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