If everyone is verified, no one is verified

https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/04/salad-days-of-twitter/

by thunderbong • 4 years ago

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aeternum2• 4 years ago

The $8 is important because it's a tax on bad behavior. Want to spam-post about your crypto giveaway? At least now you'll be out that $8 with each of your accts that gets deleted/flagged.

Previously the cost was $10-$200 per thousand twitter accts. (via a captcha farm). So this change makes it significantly more costly to spam.

https://www.icir.org/vern/papers/twitter-acct-purch.usesec13...

andrekandre3• 4 years ago

  > The $8 is important because it's a tax on bad behavior.

but then why call it "verified user" as apposed to "premium user" or some such.

fragmede• 4 years ago

inertia, probably

DevKoala• 4 years ago

Of course people are verified. The forms of payment is enough verification. To claim a business you must submit form of payment and other legal proof.

Social media distorts reality to the point that people are now confusing “verification” with “influence status”. Yes, if everybody can be verified, then it loses its value as a status symbol, and that’s good.

ethanbond3• 4 years ago

Form of payment is not used as identity verification anywhere lol. Completely unrelated.

a1445c8b3• 4 years ago

Do you mean it cannot be used for verification or just that it’s currently not practiced?

aeternum2• 4 years ago

USPS uses a payment it to validate change of address requests.

andrekandre3• 4 years ago

  > Yes, if everybody can be verified, then it loses its value as a status symbol, and that’s good.

why?

a1445c8b3• 4 years ago

For one: People are less incentivized to bribe Twitter employees just to get the badge.

somat• 4 years ago

Verified status is kinda weird in the first place.

First of all, I am not on twitter, so I don't actually know what I am talking about.

The problem is they don't say what is being verified, just that it is verified.

As I understand it. the verified tag means(or used to mean) that a twitter account claiming to be a person of certain infamy is actually that person. however there is no additional information as to exactly what the verified cv for this person is.

I would have expected, at minimum, something like certificate authority verification. and twitter could make a claim like(all examples are fake). @cmarc239 is verified to be the youtube channel "couriusmarc", @will_i_am is verified to be sony_music/blackeyedpeas, @joebiden is verified to be jbidon@whitehouse.gov or @rprwins is verified to be the twitch account m_rpr_actual

over_bridge• 4 years ago

I was wondering the same thing. Surely you have to be verified AS something. You can't just be generally verified.

Maybe you shouldn't be able to change your display name once verified as a fix. Or you can change it but the tick is hidden if you use anything other than your official name.

I see plenty of blue check accounts now with Elon Musk as their display name which defeats the point. Lock in your identity to the name you are publically known as. Make the whole name blue or put it in a border containing the check

TheOsiris• 4 years ago

Twitter used to remove the blue checkmark if the user changes their name or their handle. and the verification was an attestation that Twitter verified that the user's name matches the identity.

not sure why they've removed that. would've helped here this case.

mrgreenfur• 4 years ago

This reminds me of ssl certs: you can pay for a basic cert or one with identity verification. Most users don’t check identity verification but its super important. To prevent scams, not security per se. Twitter doesn’t even offer an id verification service: maybe for $50/yr they should confirm who the poster is and forbid imposters from poaching your name.

If everyone is verified, no one is verified

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