This seems to be happening to lots of academics. Weird time not to be verifying them. No category for “academic”.https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1402768648578625536 …
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I can appreciate it. I dislike framing things in terms of safety or survival (even with appropriate backpedaling later) when they are not in fact issues of safety or survival, because it leads to a general flattening of all bad outcomes together and kills any hope of discussion.
I didn’t mean survival as in stay alive. I meant like survive on the site, and get the very real benefits those who can acquire, even if the downsides are still uneven. Whatever credential grabbing happens is merely annoying, and is secondary to the genuine unevenness of it all.
The problem with this is that there isn’t an answer to your earlier question of what the blue checkmark means or who can get one, other than “some notable people tend to have one”. Old problem:https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/08/twitter-to-launch-a-revamped-verification-system-with-publicly-documented-guidelines/ …
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