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[sylware]

Because they could be compromised and used by a careless third-party?

[mackie342red → sylware]

Why would Twitter's new verification system be compromised?

[rideontime → mackie342red]

There’s nothing to “compromise.” Being generous and accepting that this is meant to deter scrapers, a scraper could simply pay their eight bucks to avoid the rate limit.

[sylware → mackie342red]

Stolen credentials of such an account and hardly ever used by its legit owner.

The hard part is the 'hardly ever used by its legit owner', not the "stolen credendials".