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Twitter Exploring Letting Everyone Get a Blue Tick For Verification, CEO Jack Dorsey Says (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

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.

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  1. The Tick you say? by Sporkinum · · Score: 4, Funny

    SPOON!

    --
    "He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
  2. Blue tick? by TimMD909 · · Score: 2

    We all know The Tick is blue (now), but do we all need a hero behind us yelling, "Spoon!"?

  3. Easy to get a blue tick already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  4. except by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 2

    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.

    1. Re: except by Anonymous+Cow+Ward · · Score: 2

      You're the first person to bring the Constitution into the conversation. We can criticize a company for doing things with its platform that we don't like without saying they're doing anything illegal. They're free to ignore us, we're free to stop using the platform.

      --
      Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
  5. So now we all *want* our real identity on Twitter? by herrlich_98 · · Score: 2

    ... 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.

  6. Good way to weed out the crap by Kazoo+the+Clown · · Score: 2

    I unfollow blue-ticked accounts.