Twitter Begins Removing Legacy Blue Check Marks

I found this post interesting;

Show HN: GPT-4 wrote a verified by Wikipedia badge for Twitter : https://twitter.com/Landgren/status/1649185915644829698

Posted by urvader : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35647697

Twitter Wikipedia Badge Chrome Extension : https://github.com/irony/verified-by-wikipedia

This Chrome extension adds a small Wikipedia icon next to the username on Twitter profiles that have a corresponding Wikipedia page.

By clicking on the icon, users can quickly access the Wikipedia page associated with the Twitter account.

Features

  Displays a Wikipedia icon next to Twitter usernames that have a Wikipedia page.
  Compatible with dynamically loaded Twitter content.
  Avoids adding icons to profile images or other unrelated links.
  Uses the Wikidata API to determine the existence of a Wikipedia page for a given Twitter username.

Funny how clueless Musk is, does he not realize how unattractive the paid checkmark is, it's like buying a badge to show the world how much of a wannabe you are.

Someone should make an external website that replaces the "verified" check, i.e. a site that says "Yes @[whatever it is] is actually Jason Alexander from Seinfeld" (he's one of the people mentioned in the WSJ article). You get to piss of Muskie-Boy and you'll get contacted by celebrities...