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Re:Verified accounts are now prioritized by LeoPanthera on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:10AM (#35697070)
It's astounding the correlation between "has blue checkmark", ".eth" in display name, and "supports trump in bio".

The venn diagram of those three things is nearly a single circle.

Re:Verified accounts are now prioritized by lysp on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:30AM (#35697203)
I recall another day someone who had a PHD in astrophysics and was a professor of climate science at a university making a comment, with lots of people disagreeing with his opinion.

A fair few telling him "he was wrong" were blue ticks with crypto in their profile.

Re:Verified accounts are now prioritized by alexgrover on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:22AM (#35697159)
In my corner of Twitter there’s no correlation between any of those.
Re:Verified accounts are now prioritized by pixxel on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:17AM (#35697124)
> It’s astounding the correlation

Can you post your research? How many millions of accounts did you analyse? What tools did you use?