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Re:Twitter launches blue check for $7.99 monthly fee by TigeriusKirk on Saturday November 05, 2022 @07:16PM (#33486967)
When they started removing checkmarks from accounts for unapproved behavior, it stopped being about verification and started being about Twitter's endorsement of the account.

That was a huge unforced error, and its eventually led to this.

However, I think the right thing to do now is to remove the checkmark entirely and not claim Blue accounts are verified if they are in fact not verified.

Musk seems to be compounding a new error on top of the old errors.

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Re:Twitter launches blue check for $7.99 monthly fee by convery on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:01PM (#33488076)
Seems like he's making it more of a "verified human" mark as a bot-farm is not going to pay for 1000 marks that can get banned. Not to mention backend protections such as 1 mark per creditcard, or checking the name of the holder against the account etc. might be somewhat effective at reducing spam..
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