Whitney Merrill on Nostr: Confirms what we’ve seen so far: 1. Verification and the blue check are ...
Confirms what we’ve seen so far:
1. Verification and the blue check are misunderstood by the reasonable consumer.
2. Twitter Blue is a hot mess.
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RT @jonathanmayer
Since today is the blue check apocalypse, here’s a new research paper on Twitter’s paid account “verification.” What we learned:
1) Most people don’t understand what blue checks now mean.
2) Paid accounts are disproportionately crypto bros, Elon stans, new, and cons…
https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1649164811685572616 
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