🧵 There’s a lot of discussion around Twitter verification right now, aka the “Blue Check”.

I am going to dump some brief thoughts about the Blue Check. I think they are relevant and cover nuances frequently overlooked.

/1 First, we should get it out of the way, the “Blue Check” has never been blue. It is a White Check inside of a Blue 8-bump-clover thingy. And on dark mode, it is a black check on a White 8-bump-clover thingy.

But let’s just call it the “Blue Check” anyway.
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

After putting 5 kids to bed (all fighting off the flu) on this grateful day, I've decided to pontificate about one of my open source projects.

This is mostly for posterity, but I'll Tweet it in case it is interesting to anyone.

github.com/NSProgrammer/Z… At some point, I'd like to yap about the projects I've open sourced while working at Twitter, but for today, we'll stick with a project that predates my time at Twitter (both as an employee and as a user).

github.com/twitter/ios-tw…
github.com/twitter/ios-tw…
github.com/twitter/ios-tw…

Twitter has made a new improvement to PNG uploads effective now!

PNGs uploaded with 256 colors or less will automatically be converted PNG8

Thread 🧵⬇️

https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien/status/1096103346107076609

Announcement here:

twittercommunity.com/t/upcoming-cha…

These changes have now completed. Feel free to review the announcement for all details related to this change in how Twitter handles PNG images now.

https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien/status/1077603674568839168

This thread includes specific details on how these changes impact uploaded PNGs, including an infographic:

https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien/status/1081338008949932032