I don’t understand how they manage to fuck up the check mark thing that bad. The fact that there appears to have been no rules or requirements beyond having 8 dollars to become verified is absolutely ludicrous. But, I suppose it isn’t that surprising it was so poorly thought out given only a week to implement.,(reply>), @Arklan Uth Oslin i also think they should add a system that shows the actual username beside the name you picked, kinda like how on steam if you set a nickname for your friends it puts the username in (NameHere),(reply>), @Churble Furbles and what's wrong with that? It's a social media platform, not a social credit system. Blue check was really a security feature, people who care about things that don't matter are the only ones looking at it as a status symbol.<br><br>Elon is just a rich agent of chaos, which is why the people who like him actually like him. I dread his eventual political career, he's very much like Trump in that he lacks self-awareness and has terrible ideas but has a great understanding of how to get his base riled up.,(reply>), What I don't get is, you had to pay. Like, with a card. A card with a name on it. One that's pretty verified, by the bank/card issuer. So, there's your confirmed identity. I mean the US Postal Service uses a 1 dollar charge to do exactly that! Yet somehow, the idiots at twitter IGNORED this name and let people make accounts that were so obviously fake it's hard to imagine it wasn't done as an intentional trolll.,(reply>), @deamon In theory, in reality is was arbitrarily given out to those allowed to signal status.,(reply>), @thenonexistinghero Ah yup there it is, hello from the other side of the aisle. That "oh you're wrong then because I say so!" then vaguely gesturing at "company and guvment bad!" is really doing wonders.<br>I agree that companies and government is bad.<br>But then why on Earth have you jammed a pin of cognitive dissonance in so hard you think Musk who is <b>part of that problem</b> will make it better?<br>And you have...still not argued the verification aspect, on top of that you're conveniently forgetting the """"mind control"""" that comes from complete unregulated "verification" that has already demonstrated widespread abuse.