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by pjc50 1924 days ago
Changing your twitter display name should arguably immediately in software invalidate your blue-tick ""verification"" just as you can't rename a website without getting a new certificate. Of course, the real problem is that the blue tick is both arbitrary and meaningless!
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This would've also caught the UK conservative party's trick where they set their Twitter name to "Fact check UK" or similar during a debate. Clever but morally reprehensible.