Verification on Twitter is going Swimmingly, Fake accounts getting Gold Checks

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More Twitter Confusion As Fake MTV ‘Challenge’ Account Gets Gold Tick After Posting Videos Of Violence & Profanities https://t.co/yVu5MgTf8x
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) April 24, 2023

So,

• Gold Checks are reserved for the official and verified accounts of businesses that pay $1,000 per month.
• Today, not one, but two accounts of businesses

Comments

[anterrabre]

I anticipate lawsuits any day now because people are buying checks just to spread misinformation. Someone pretending to be from the Chicago Department of Transportation tweeted the other day that DuSable Lake Shore Drive was closing and a lot of people retweeted/posted it on other mediums as a fact. If your platform becomes known for blatant misinformation people are going to stop visiting.

[insomniachobs]

If not on the misinformation, he's certainly about to get some for non-consensually giving people Twitter Blue without removing the line that says it was purchased. Pretty sure it breaks at least one false endorsement law in the US and I can imagine other territories will have similar advertising standards etc rules

[inandoutofgrace]

[aesha]

I have to say I was really surprised when I saw an article in Block Club saying that wasn't happening. I would definitely find that hard to believe but then again plenty of folks on Twitter don't worry about verification.

On the other hand, LSD northbound sucks right now because they're resurfacing from the LaSalle exit to Irving Park, and supposedly at some point supposed to go all the way up to Lawrence. I know I'll appreciate it when it's done because that's like half of my commute, but right now I'm just annoyed that it's making my commute 20 minutes longer. And that was last week before they'd moved traffic down to one lane... thank goodness I get off at 4 because it would be an even bigger mess if I worked until 5.

[aesha]

Oh yes, what a mess. I’m pretty salty about the land they used for that. Shit move to use park land. Especially when the Michael Reese campus has been sitting there abandoned for like a decade and a half or more. And its location would have been great too being a block off LSD.

I have this Chicago scavenger hunt book and there’s something in/near Jackson Park (or maybe a couple things) that are in it but I couldn’t find it for the life of me and I think it may be in part because of the construction.