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> Could they simply disable the ability to change display names for verified users?

I don't know if I agree with this solution, but it is bizarre that there are plenty of blue checks where neither their twitter @id nor their display name have anything to do with their actual name. Who is the blue check verifying that they are?

I propose showing the verified identity (whether that's a stage name or whatever) on mouseover on the blue check icon. I'll take my consulting fee through paypal.



Sometimes people are famous under a username or pseudonym. Also Twitter generally verifies people at risk of being impersonated. It doesn't matter if you know who say CZ is but if thousands of people would pretend to be him and others will fall for it it helps to verify who the real one is.

Though clearly they should disable name changing post verification or something so the checkmark itself doesn't help to impersonate others.


And sometimes famous blue checks have an id that is unrelated to any name they have been known by, and a display name unrelated to any name they have been known by. I know this because I follow people like this. I know who they are verified to be, but that name is nowhere associated with their account.

Which is why I said that.


Well, it kind of makes sense if you have e.g. a big youtube channel under and alias and people would know who you are based on that (e.g. Veritasium) but less people would know what your actual name is. However I don't use twitter so I have no idea how liberally this sort of thing is applied


Another example would be MrBeast. His real name is Jimmy Donaldson but few people know him by that name.


yeah I mean it's true of basically any youtuber whose handle isn't just their name


> Who is the blue check verifying that they are

This is exactly my issue with the whole phenomena. They're utterly useless as anything but a weird form of status symbol.

Hell, Twitter may as well sell them, might help with the revenue issue.


Musk proposed that. Making the verification process more elaborate and less fame-oriented, and charging for it.


Now I have to rethink this. If d00dly agrees with the idea, it is likely half-baked and missing something obvious.




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