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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Jun 2021

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted A Marm Kilpatrick

    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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    A Marm Kilpatrick @DiseaseEcology
    No big surprise, but my account was rejected by Twitter's verification algorithm. The criteria are pretty strange & it's hard for me to see how it's more important for a professional athlete to be verified than a scientist during a pandemic. pic.twitter.com/yZVFrUxpPY
    10:32 AM - 10 Jun 2021
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      1. Thomas J. Tobin‏ @ThomasJTobin 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Yeah, no blue check for me because expertise in how to teach with technology mediation doesn't fit their categories. Go fig.

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      2. Kevin Daley‏ @kevinrdaley 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Isn’t the point of the blue check to prevent fraud? If they are an academic but not public figures, Twitter has a vested interest in verifying their identity. Twitter doesn’t want to get into the business of deciding who is and who isn’t an “academic”…

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      3. Kevin Daley‏ @kevinrdaley 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @kevinrdaley @zeynep

        Should probably just institute a policy that gives out blue checks once you reach a set number of followers and verify your identity with Twitter

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      2. shawnito 🍀‏ @PFShawns 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Imagine verification for MA and PhD. I don't think academia wants that.

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      3. Jbgiv‏ @BuzzJohnG 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @PFShawns @zeynep

        Would be fine by me to verify degrees as well as univ. I've had more than one idiot insist that I was lying about them.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        There's like a billion academics on here. Seems like the right call to me. Pinboard pro tip: make your Twitter icon a big blue circle and 95% of people will think you're a verified account.

        4 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @Pinboard

        What’s the point of verification then? Notable? Real person? Who they say they are?

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
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      1. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne  🎭‏ @yudhanjaya 10 Jun 2021
        Replying to @zeynep

        Twitter's verification is shady af. We have an interesting govt-affiliated figure who was proved to have faked his Masters and PhD credentials - he's verified.

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