If the barrier to a checkmark is $8 then all the scammers are going to have checkmarks too
and now we have more of a paper trail to stop them
Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month
by encryptluks2 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:38PM
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Yes because most scammers provide their real information when scamming
The most common scam I see on Twitter is imposter accounts replying to a real person with a link to some crypto scam. Right now you can usually immediately tell it's a different person since the reply doesn't have a check mark, this system seems like it will make it easier since the scammer can just get a checkmark.
You really don't though. It's trivially easy to create new valid unique payment information with a free virtual credit card number and a fake name/address. This is a very hard problem to truly solve.
There's a reason there are entire companies that focus on the problem of ID verification, it's difficult problem.
Sounds like a valuable problem for twitter to play cat-and-mouse with. They literally make money for every try.
Are virtual cards actually useful for crimes? I assumed they were primarily for ending subscriptions that make canceling orders of magnitude harder than signing up.
Actual scammers I expect have stolen credit card databases to test.
Saw a roundtable about this and a film maker said it was really hard when they're about to release a film and someone uses a fake Twitter handle that's close to theirs releases the trailer or footage before they wanted it released.
Paying to have a blue check on their account would cut down this type of piracy or release of trailers before the producer wants to. They said it would be very worth it to maintain the legitimacy of what they're doing.
I'm assuming other types of creators would see the value in being able to say, "If its not from my verified account, then its not (me, my work, my companies work) and you should ignore it."