this is actually deeply irritating to me ive worked at lots of tech companies large and small in data/ml roles you have to understand every one of them is held together with the equivalent of duct tape and fortuitously growing barnacles, no one understands how the systems workhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1106374706674847745 …
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But again, unevenly enforced- Kurt Schlichter is a blue check, as is Tucker Carlson- and Carlson has a bigger platform than a dozen left wing blue checks who are protected combined, but they are not protected.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The idea of "bluechecks" as a category of like ... stakeholders? ... seems utterly alien to how I understand the site. But maybe I just don't hang out in the kinds of circles where such an idea makes sense.
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It does make sense- twitter is actually a weird kind of cuckoo; it's business model is mostly coopting news platforms by tricking them into posting tweets of their scoops instead of the stories and robbing news sites of traffic and subs. . .
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