• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    an absurdly high amount of verified accounts, almost 300k.

    Most of that is vanity shit.

    I've seen people complain that it's very hard for scientists to get verified. I just googled about it. I found what seemed to be a good article but the fuckers put it behind a paywall and the Archive link is also the paywalled article. But the intro does say this...

    Twitter’s account-verification service lacks a specific category for scientists