The tool was fit for this purpose for years, and as a result widely used for said purpose.

Twitter here is like a hammer that suddenly refuses to pound nails.

It is like a hammer you purchased on finance at zero interest whose hardware store suddenly wants the hammer back now that rates have gone up, or you pay interest to carry on using said hammer.

Twitter has never been good for this purpose. Back when blue checks were unusual, you could tell who Twitter cared about: government accounts were “unverified”, but of course every 22 year old Gawker intern had one.

? Twitter was theoretically not good for this purpose, but in practice was actually quite good. Which is, of course, what matters here in reality.

The status fixation on blue checks is so fucking absurd.

Man uses tool and finds out it works awesome. Other man buys and modifies said tool. Man needs to search another tool.