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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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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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.
What’s the point of verification then? Notable? Real person? Who they say they are?
Originally I thought it was for preventing people from impersonating celebrities, but it has long since exceeded my understanding. Of course the kind of people who insist you call them "Dr." because they studied Hegelian hermeneutics are going to grasp at any online credential.
Some may have chips on shoulders, and gonna go with that’s more widespread than PhDs. But yes many people need to insist on title/blue check because tons of people refuse treat them like they’re fellow humans, let alone educated ones. You don’t face that so may be hard to grasp.
It’s like the rich saying, no, no the money doesn’t matter. It does if you don’t have it, and so do titles and credentials if you get treated like an idiot and/or subhuman by default by a sizable group. That’s not “grasping”, more like trying to survive.
I think framing a blue checkmark on the outrage site as a survival issue is taking it too far.
If they’re going to survive as part of the public sphere, it is. Not survive as in die, obviously, but absolutely survive as in have a voice here—and this goes direct to media narratives. The treatment is so uneven, and that check helps a lot because humans are like that.
The whole verification thing is so odd. It seems to sit in some ill-defined place between “this account is what it claims to be” and “this person is important and we think you should listen to them”. The former category has value, and they should just open it up to everyone.
If Twitter had a single sociologist talking to them they’d realize exactly where it would end up at the moment they introduced it. Right now, it’s the latter—of course it is. There’s just no other way to add a status marker like this, without that result. (Unless yeah, everyone).
I’d get a lot more value out of being able to look at an account and quickly determine that it’s not a throw-away troll than I do from whatever the current checkmark means.
There had been an academic carve out, but they seemed to have removed it. It seems like it would improve the site, but maybe that is what they are afraid of.
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