(11-05-2022, 10:27 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1...TtBDw&s=19

Pretty interesting.. Elon even acknowledged it.

The old process was twitter approaching the user and saying "you appear to be someone notable.  Can you prove you are who you say you are?" They would then send you postcards, call your neighbors, and your employer, and otherwise make sure everything looked legit.  This wasn't automated.  But they would do this for free.  

The frustrating part of the old process is there were people who wanted the blue check, who wanted to be notable, but Twitter just said no.  These people were willing to pay to become notable, and maybe some did, under the table.  But even so, Twitter still verified their identity.

The new process isn't even a process though.  It's not "anyone can sign up for identity verification," it's, "anyone can pay us $8 and no one gets identity verification anymore."

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