Twitter said it fixed ‘verification.’ So I impersonated a senator (again)

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28 points·adrian_mrd··6 comments

> Last week, up popped a blue check mark on my @SenatorEdMarkey account. Oops! I did it again.

Except if you actually read Elon's tweet is very quick and easy to determine that you are not the real senator, even with the blue check mark.

> Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not)...

Your check mark is blue, not grey, there for you are NOT government (not a senator).

> And so far, Twitter has not given any special marks to the accounts belonging to U.S. senators such as Markey.

> As of press time, Markey’s real account still has a blue check mark that says, “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.” My fake one, meanwhile, says “This account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

> On the left, Ed Markey's real Twitter account. On the right, the Twitter account Geoff created impersonating Markey.

Oh Great, because that is utterly less confusing way to fix the problem he created.

> Your check mark is blue, not grey, there for you are NOT government (not a senator).

Whoops, I always thought it was the other way around.

The grey checkmark is only for government agencies. Individual lawmakers have blue check marks.

Do you really expect people to remember what the colors mean?

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