[humanpotato]

Yes. Obviously.

A more insightful question is "were they ever cool?" It's hard to think of any company or figure, before or after the Twitter purchase, where them gaining a blue check made them "cool", or even fractionally moreso.

[prepend]

Twitter could have attempted a true reputation system that would help me (I want to see people who people I follow have endorsed, that would be useful).

Instead they did something that was kind of confusing and not helpful. Twitter didn’t have a systematic way of being “significant” so it would just kind of be haphazardly applied.

Lebron James is famous, but he is known already so doesn’t need a blue check. (Just have an ama verification image somewhere in profile) It was all the other seemingly random people that had blue check marks that meant nothing to me.

[kevinmchugh]

The check mark was useful for differentiating LeBron from fake, parody LeBron accounts. I don't click through to every account retweeted onto my feed, so having a piece of UI on every tweet makes it easy to see that it's not a parody. That's very useful.

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