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I've never understood the goal of it. It feels like they claim it's to help those in the public eye that might frequently be targets of harassment or fraudulent copy-cat accounts, but AFAICT it's just a way to declare someone "popular" (or just blatantly handed out to people who have friends at Twitter).

It's just another way to separate people arbitrarily for no real reason.

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There are many scammers/malicious/deceitful people that made accounts for celebrities and attempted to scam(or other bad crap) people. So there is a group of people at risk of getting impersonated and a solution is needed for this but it seems Twitter does not have it.

That's the blue checkmark

Yes the checkmark should be the solution in theory but it seems from this article that it is not implemented correctly.

FWIW, when I got my blue checkmark I had something like 6k followers; not exactly a popular account. I did it because there were some copycat accounts and I was dealing with some nasty harassment. The process was painless and it helped a whole hell of a lot in the end.

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