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Am I misremembering history?

> Blue checkmarks "used to mean trustworthy sources of information," Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said

I thought the blue check mark always indicated that account name on Twitter matched the person behind the account. That’s it. They eventually expanded that to include non-famous people.

Kyrie Irving (an NBA player known for conspiracies like flat earthism) had a blue check - no one would ever mistake him for a trustworthy source of information.



The only thing blue checkmark meant was that you knew somebody at twitter




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