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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
In retrospect, the decision that did more to cripple Twitter as a reliable source of information was the elimination of the old verification system. While it was imperfect and implied a natural inegalitarianism it actually helped a lot to know who was really a government official or representative of an institution from whom accountability could be expected. It has since transformed into verification merely of who has paid $8 a month, as well as a marker of engagement-grifting for economic gain. It is hard to emphasize how damaging this is during a crisis where verifying accuracy of information is paramount. Most people, including myself, continue to use Twitter out of habit and because of sunk costs and network effects of over a decade of usage. But a new social media platform should consider some form of verification system that identifies institutional associations. That is how Twitter originally became the place where official communications happened. I doubt it'd become that again from scratch today.
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Alex
@asenderling.eth
I would love to see an alternate reality in which they brought on a vendor to do actual identity verification and handed out a different color badge to people who verified their identity. But the way Musk changed it along with the reply amplification for $8 subs truly turned the platform into a cesspool.
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OWOICHO IGOJI
@wendell8746
It's also a business as well and some businesses thrive on limited anonymity. Whether we like to admit it or not. Crypto forms a considerable liquidity base for twitter. And you see in recent times they're trying to make it possible to buy crypto directly on twitter. Also, adoption means ease of accessibility sometimes. Twitter has managed to an admissible degree to keep basic identity verification in place. But for blue ticks it's a business. When you acquire a business you try to recover some of the costs by offering or changing certain services. We find fault with a system only if we're not financially invested into it. But that doesn't mean wrong is not wrong contextually.
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