&gt; that would force them to put all new users into an &quot;unverified&quot; bucket<p>But that&#x27;s exactly how it is now.<p>I personally like the verified user option but I can understand how some wouldn&#x27;t for reasons like the one you give. Frankly, I think Twitter&#x27;s focus on growth is a big part of what got it into this problem in the first place. I&#x27;d rather see them focus on quality than growth and I think expanding the verified user program does that.<p>The measure-of-connectedness option is a little gentler and would probably fix a pretty big piece of the problem.