Culture Twitter Shutdown Verified Account program bc the Alt-Right got in - Rest in Piss

Twitter has suspended its verified-profile scheme and described it as "broken", following complaints over the type of accounts being verified.

Typically, prominent people, including musicians, journalists and company executives, get a blue icon on their profile after proving their identity.

However, some far-right and white-supremacist accounts have now also been verified.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said the scheme would now be "reconsidered".

In a statement, the company said: "Verification was meant to authenticate identity and voice, but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance.

"We recognise that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it."

The company said no further "general" accounts would be verified, while it worked on a fix.

Twitter has been making a series of changes to address abuse and harassment on the social network.

Last week, it published a rewritten version of its rules, which it said would make them easier to understand.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41934831
https://archive.fo/BY2Ku

 

[Ngut]

Aren't they basically admitting the blue tick was "Twitter fully endorses this #woke person"?

https://mobile.twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/928654369771356162

And they're still getting RAKED over the coals by socjus cultists about how they've been doing it all wrong and only handed those out to literal Nazis and how every checkmark denied to a POC was another conscious boost for the white supremacists that make up 99.94% of modern America.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Note how the checkmark is WHITE??

Explain this u fucking white supremacist twitter nazis!

 

[TerminalTryHard]

The only thing more pathetic than taking Twitter serious is taking Twitter verification serious.

 

[melty]

everyone who cares about blue checkmarks is a lolcow.

 

[Munchingonfish]

Twitter is a lost cause if it's Nazis that made them react this way. 90% of the verified accounts are narcissistic nobodies deluded enough to believe someone would impersonate them. I've seen accounts with fewer than 1000 followers get the blue checkmark.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Verified? More like verifiziert.

 

[Kyria the Great]

(((verified))) is no more I guess.

 

[Munchingonfish]

I thought verified users got priority when it comes to Twitter replies on a popular post? That's why there are always 200 blue checkmarks spewing shit on every Trump tweet. How is that not an endorsement?

 

[NotoriousD]

So does this include taking it away from everyone that currently has it? Or being selective?

 

[polonium]

So does this include taking it away from everyone that currently has it? Or being selective?

My prediction is they'll take it away from people with Wrong Opinions, so that it can be once again a tacit endorsement of (((certain views)))

 

[AnOminous]

My prediction is they'll take it away from people with Wrong Opinions, so that it can be once again a tacit endorsement of (((certain views)))

That's exactly what a nigger squirrel would say.

 

[polonium]

That's exactly what a nigger squirrel would say.

Squigger please

 

[NotoriousD]

My prediction is they'll take it away from people with Wrong Opinions, so that it can be once again a tacit endorsement of (((certain views)))

You know what, I would actually welcome that. Imagine the backlash to Twitter refusing verified status to Donald fucking Trump while giving it to people like Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, and assorted SJWs and crazies. If nothing else it'd practically be screaming "We don't endorse those with different opinions, but the asshats that follow the narrative are okay".

 

[Robotron]

Twitter verification is back up and apparently certain people like Richard Spencer and Laura Loomer have officially lost their verified status.

 

[CatParty]

Twitter verification is back up and apparently certain people like Richard Spencer and Laura Loomer have officially lost their verified status.

Bakedalaska is nuked

 

[neverendingmidi]

Twitter verification is back up and apparently certain people like Richard Spencer and Laura Loomer have officially lost their verified status.

So it is about being approved by twitter, not making sure someone isn’t impersonating you. Good to have a guideline.

 

[vertexwindi]

So it is about being approved by twitter, not making sure someone isn’t impersonating you. Good to have a guideline.

Trump still has one. They approve of him confirmed.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Trump still has one. They approve of him confirmed.

If they had taken his away they would've been a laughingstock.

Did any of the verified Rat King nonentities lose their verification?

 

[Robotron]

Trump still has one. They approve of him confirmed.

Twitter isn't prepared to deal with the shitstorm that would happen if Trump was de-verified, just look at what happened when some disgruntled employee decided to temporarily terminate his account early.

 

[NotoriousD]

Twitter isn't prepared to deal with the shitstorm that would happen if Trump was de-verified, just look at what happened when some disgruntled employee decided to temporarily terminate his account early.

Well, as much as I'd love to see that shitstorm, I suppose other verified people being salty over Trump still having it is nice too. I wonder if that's part of the jumping ship to Mastadon and other hugboxes. I already know a lot of SJWs and similar types claim Twitter isn't defending them enough, so it wouldn't surprise me if Trump having a blue checkmark was one of those nails in the coffin for them.