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Twitter Exploring Letting Everyone Get a Blue Tick For Verification, CEO Jack Dorsey Says (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Twitter could one day allow everyone to be verified by one of the company's signature blue ticks, according to CEO Jack Dorsey. In a livestream on Periscope, Dorsey said Thursday that opening verification to more people could help to make sure people on the platform are who they say they are. "The intention is to open verification for everyone, and to do it in a way that is scalable where we (Twitter) are not in the way. And people can verify more facts about themselves and we don't have to be the judge or imply any bias on our part," Dorsey said. Twitter introduced the blue checkmark in 2009. It was initially available to public figures such as celebrities, but has since expanded to others like journalists and bloggers. Users need to apply for the blue tick, explaining why they need one.
SPOON!
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Shouldn't everyone have the blue tick (verified).
To prevent the bots. Or prevent bots.
Of course Twitter enjoys inflated user counts and usage.
I enjoy completely ignoring it.
BlameBillCosby.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories
"...until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
whether this one was that one... or that one was this one...
or which one was what one... or what one was who."
verified certifiable.
won't solve anything, and will piss everybody off if they go even further and move to a RN-only policy.
We all know The Tick is blue (now), but do we all need a hero behind us yelling, "Spoon!"?
All you have to do is agree in every detail with Jack.
Because Jack is that older sibling who knows best. Jack only wants what is good for everyone. Sometimes, Jack has to silence a tiny minority so that their distracting voices don't degrade the utopia that is Jack's vision. But Jack knows best. In the end, there will be complete free speech and expression on Jack's monopolistic platform. All you have to do is agree with Jack.
Now everyone will be rushing to get a "blue tick" so they can keep the fantasy going that their Twitter account somehow makes them interesting and famous.
Sent from my TARDIS
Never mind. I was going to say something about Twitter until it occurred to me that doing so would be pretty much like Twitter.
So I'm going to Pornhub instead.
Twitter has a habit of removing verification from people they don't like even though they are who they say they are.
Give the Russian-infested cesspool even more of your personal data!
I don't use twitter, but isn't this the type of thing they have been preaching to people for a long time now? Why has it taken them so long to also have equality on their data collection convenience platform?
So will they have a Super Blue Tick?
What I hear is that people with the blue tick, has extra features, such as filtering out tweets and replys from all the riff raff without the blue tick.
Which might also explain why people with the wrong opinions have been stripped of their blue tick so the good people won't have to look at them.
L'Idiot
And then we'll know exactly who you are for purposes of marketing and analytics, and for handing your personal information over to governments who demand it.
Fuck, these social media assholes get creepier every year. I'm sure they'd love to have verified accounts for everyone on the planet.
Fuck Twitter, Fuck Facebook, Fuck all of this goddamned invasive social media.
Except this things has not just been used for verification, the withdrawal of it has been used as "punishment" for people saying things that Twitter management and staff do not like.
It can be a bad consequence sweepstakes: one out of every 10 clicks gets you lime disease.
... unless you can have some sort of weird twitter username that doesn't reveal your real identify *and* have a blue tick.
First people want to be anonymous, then the government (like China?) wants to force us to use our real names but this seems like some mental jujitsu that makes us all want to use our real verified names because the blue tick means we are special?
I am actually not some super paranoid person about doing this. It is an ok idea, seems like a good idea to be able to have some sort of verification or even Slashdot-like karma that you are a good actor.
I'm Spartacus .... (listens)
At this point, it's been shown that the "Verified" system is naught but a mutual back-patting club for those whose ideals line up with those "in the fold" at Twitter, or who're simply too damn popular to be left alone.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Please add me to the army of the tickless.
You'd want it because verification unlocks features and allows you to show up in search results and have mentions read.
If you aren't verified, you're basically filtered out of existence to other Twitter users. Tweets you post may or may not show up, mentioning people may or may not cause them to see your tweet, and various other notifications you can generate may or may not show. Verified users show up in the default search results, non-verified users have to break a certain "retweet" or "like" threshold to be seen.
No matter what Twitter says, they treat verified users as being "special" and offer them perks that other users don't get. That's why this (sort of) makes sense, even if they don't do any real verification to a real name. (Of course what would make more sense is to NOT offer perks to verified users and just make the checkmark indicate that a user is who they say they are.)
As the majority of the world has never even heard of Twitter then good luck with that.
I've heard of it but as www.twitter.com is blocked by my firewall, I don't need to say anything else.
Die Twitter, die...
I unfollow blue-ticked accounts.
Helen: Everyone's special, Dash. ...*no one* will be.
Dash: [muttering] Which is another way of saying no one is.
or
Syndrome: *Everyone* can be super! And when everyone's super... [laughs maniacally]
When everyone has it, it becomes useless.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
"We're just going to ban everyone well-known we don't like so the Official Seal of Certified Politically Correct Drone-hood essentially maintains the same meaning"
Does the tick bite? Is it a carrier of rocky mountain spotted fever?
You do any employee, only this could end the bullshit.
Twitter knows Steemit is coming for their lunch. They need to do things to keep people on their platform. Gotta admit, its nice being paid directly by other users.. instead of depending on advertisers.
Oops, wrong year. Must have punched it in wrong in the DeLorean.
Administrators used to be above the politics of their users.
Twitter did this to themselves.
Look where it's gotten them.
Idiots.
Good administrators apply their site policies with no bias whatsoever, if someone breaks the rules, they get punished, that's integrity, that's a quality service.
Not this "I don't like this person, let's revoke their blue tick, har har!" that's just shit.
It's america! Must find new ways to find out who you are, steal your data, let's over correct!!!