Look, @Twitter, I know I'm just a Mississippi journalist with only 23.4k followers.
I'll never be as cool or important as a Walmart exec with 8 followers who only opened his account in January, I know.
But today marks three years since you "paused" your verification system.
I'll never be as cool or important as a Walmart exec with 8 followers who only opened his account in January, I know.
But today marks three years since you "paused" your verification system.
https://twitter.com/verified/status/968243242184491008
In the sense of the blue check as a status symbol, I don't care.
But as a journalist who works for a non-profit that depends on the support of small donors, that check helps us grow our following and also demonstrates to newcomers that we're a legit organization.
But as a journalist who works for a non-profit that depends on the support of small donors, that check helps us grow our following and also demonstrates to newcomers that we're a legit organization.
Also: I've been a journalist for a long time, but because I don't have a blue check, I still have people on Twitter express uncertainty about my own exclusive reporting and wondering why no blue checks have reported it.
FYI: The reason Twitter paused verifications in 2018 was to take time to figure out how to not verify Nazis and klansmen, apparently because not verifying Nazis and klansmen is a really complex thing to implement.
For anyone who is interested in supporting our work, btw, you can follow @MSFreePress and make a one-time or recurring donation to mfp.ms/donate.
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