Did they pay, or was theirs one of the desperation checkmarks? I know a lot of accounts were getting stealth-verified without paying so that it would look like a more popular product
They paid
A UAW official told The Intercept that the union’s account, which they paid for, was verified until Friday morning, when suddenly it wasn’t
Ultimately it’s a pretty innocuous thing though
eh, if it means people know they’re the real account, and it prioritizes their messages in timelines/search/etc, it’s probably worth giving twitter $8 or whatever even though elon’s a shitlord
I see it pretty differently for orgs than people
isn’t it 1K a month for organizations?
Who can say, it feels like it changes with the tides.
if it means people know they’re the real account
It doesn’t. It means someone paid a few dollars.
well no, there’s two different checkmarks for “paid a couple bucks” and “paid a couple bucks plus has a bluecheck because they’re notable”. I don’t even go on twitter and I remember this
agreed
Oh Bazingas will love this, they hate nothing more than unions getting in the way of their treats and their god king is doing it.
Wasn’t this quickly pointed out to be caused by the name change of the account? The check mark poofs on name change, until it’s manually verified. Likely because people kept impersonating the twat.
Yeah musk is shit, but this isn’t news. It’s… just how the site has worked for a while.
