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Robyn Caplan: As Elon takes on Twitter blue checks, a history lesson might help
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Blue check, um, that has been such a ubiquitous and important symbol on Twitter and he was going to fold it into a product that Twitter already had that was called Twitter Blue. There has been a perspective from both outsiders and within the platforms themselves that, you know, verification can mean a special relationship between an organization and a platform, and that could be problematic, especially because these platforms are often operating globally and you know – a publication that is operating out of India may have a harder time getting verified than a publication that is operating out of the United States because. And what is special about Twitter and what is really important to preserve about Twitter is that Twitter has never had a real name policy.