Thread by @thomaschattwill

I’ll likely have 100k followers before @Twitter @verified verifies my account. Puts me in good company with @coldxman, @JohnHMcWhorter and @GlennLoury, but it’s bizarre. Am verified on @Facebook and @instagram and have published everywhere. Sincerely hope this isn’t ideological.

As far as I can tell I provided everything that is required of a journalist. Name on masthead of @NYTmag and official website linking to account. Clarification would be welcome. Retweets of the above post would be appreciated 🙏🏽

I never used @Twitter regularly when verification was a free-for-all in the past, so never requested. But now that I do and @verified opened up again, I see it as a basic issue of fairness.

This is why it actually matters and is an issue of fairness:

https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/1402615516221644807

A random audio engineer from a website that folded who now works in an entirely different industry can still be verified on @Twitter, just as the guy who simply replied to all of Donald Trump's tweets is. All good, but when it's arbitrarily denied it amounts to a soft censorship.

.@TwitterSupport, why is it easier to be on the cover of a national magazine than to get @verified on @Twitter?

Appreciate everyone's responses. Thank you. I never used to think about verification until recently. Only reason any of this matters is because of the de facto monopoly Twitter wields both inscrutably and unaccountably while tacitly endorsing certain accounts and not others.