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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by housemusicfan on Sunday August 20, 2023 @03:35PM (#37202258)
> The blue check-mark saga - destroying a lot of it's hard-earned value

Hard-earned value? Please tell us this is satire.

Are you referring to the creation of the segregated online society of haves and have-nots? Where many of the checks were handed out based not on merit but on industry connections?

The blue checks were one of the biggest displays of inequity in all of modern existence, and we are all fortunate that the old model was swiftly killed off.

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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by rejectfinite on Sunday August 20, 2023 @04:19PM (#37202583)
Poster is probably a heavy Twitter user where social value and the validity of your opinions where decided by having a blue jpeg on your Twitter profile.

So yes to their pathetic black mold brain the blue Twitter checkmark was ""value""

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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by donkeybeer on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:28PM (#37214187)
The checkmark didn't represent any privilege, it meant verifiability that the account is actually that person. It makes sense it was mainly used by celebrities who are going to have a lot of impersonators.
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