Twitter devalued its top status symbol and what it can do now

Re:Twitter devalued its top status symbol and what it can do... by gitfan86 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:34PM (#35472460)

If we are talking about Obama, then sure, let's make it hard for people to impersonate him. But what happens when you get down to some guy with a YouTube channel and 10k subscribers. Does he have a public facing job? What if he only had 100 subscribers?

It becomes an arbitrary status symbol eventually.

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Re:Twitter devalued its top status symbol and what it can do... by simonw on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:47PM (#35472639)

In those cases it was about risk of impersonation. Plenty of people who weren't "famous" still had enough of an audience that it was profitable for some crypto-hawking spammer to imitate them and try to con their audience.

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Re:Twitter devalued its top status symbol and what it can do... by ghaff on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:55PM (#35472764)

That basically happened to me. Modest number of followers but enough for the crypto-grifters to spam.

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