Verified status is kinda weird in the first place.
First of all, I am not on twitter, so I don't actually know what I am talking about.
The problem is they don't say what is being verified, just that it is verified.
As I understand it. the verified tag means(or used to mean) that a twitter account claiming to be a person of certain infamy is actually that person. however there is no additional information as to exactly what the verified cv for this person is.
I would have expected, at minimum, something like certificate authority verification. and twitter could make a claim like(all examples are fake). @cmarc239 is verified to be the youtube channel "couriusmarc", @will_i_am is verified to be sony_music/blackeyedpeas, @joebiden is verified to be jbidon@whitehouse.gov or @rprwins is verified to be the twitch account m_rpr_actual
Twitter used to remove the blue checkmark if the user changes their name or their handle. and the verification was an attestation that Twitter verified that the user's name matches the identity.
not sure why they've removed that. would've helped here this case.
I was wondering the same thing. Surely you have to be verified AS something. You can't just be generally verified.
Maybe you shouldn't be able to change your display name once verified as a fix. Or you can change it but the tick is hidden if you use anything other than your official name.
I see plenty of blue check accounts now with Elon Musk as their display name which defeats the point. Lock in your identity to the name you are publically known as. Make the whole name blue or put it in a border containing the check
First of all, I am not on twitter, so I don't actually know what I am talking about.
The problem is they don't say what is being verified, just that it is verified.
As I understand it. the verified tag means(or used to mean) that a twitter account claiming to be a person of certain infamy is actually that person. however there is no additional information as to exactly what the verified cv for this person is.
I would have expected, at minimum, something like certificate authority verification. and twitter could make a claim like(all examples are fake). @cmarc239 is verified to be the youtube channel "couriusmarc", @will_i_am is verified to be sony_music/blackeyedpeas, @joebiden is verified to be jbidon@whitehouse.gov or @rprwins is verified to be the twitch account m_rpr_actual