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JackHandy on 05 November 2022
Zkuq said:
JackHandy said:

Here is what no one can seem to explain to me. If everyone can pay for a checkmark, then what is preventing someone from just duping a famous person? How are they going to differentiate between fake accounts and real ones? Red checkmarks for famous people, blue ones for subscribers? It makes no sense to me.

I think we're about to find out as soon as they get this done. It's probably going to involve identifying yourself in some 'trusted' way when paying for the checkmark, but I bet it's not going to be all that reliable. Is there really a way to reliably identify people across the world from different countries, especially when all you really want to do is get their money using as little effort as possible? That said, the number of 'verified' fake accounts should, for the most part, be fairly small due to the associate cost (I hope), which should make it relatively easy to moderate such accounts. I'm not terrible convinced of this approach though, and I fully expect this to be abused anyway in some creative manner.

I see. But that's a lot of man power to try to verify so many millions of people. I wonder how that's even possible. 

Edit: just saw that there is no verification process. Everyone who pays just gets the check. As of right now, there is no verification process, and the people who had it have now had their "official" tag removed. 

Last edited by JackHandy - on 09 November 2022

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SegaHeart on 27 November 2022
trunkswd said:

Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a more expensive subscription that also verifies users, according to people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence seen by The Verge. Twitter is planning to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription, though that price is subject to change. Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired.

Musk has been clear in the months leading up to his acquisition that he wanted to revamp how Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. He is also keen on growing subscriptions to become half of the company’s overall revenue. On Sunday, he tweeted: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now.”

Platformer’s Casey Newton first reported that Twitter was considering charging for verification. A spokesperson for Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.

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Source: The Verge.

Bolded, I never knew such features exist? Even though I spend all day looking up gaming news.