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by jimkleiber 1750 days ago
I have been thinking similar things since 2016. Apparently, Twitter created the verified profiles as a response to Tony La Russa suing them over impersonation accounts [0].

Oh, and I like the opening summary of the 2009 article:

> On the company blog, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says Tony La Russa lawsuit over fake tweets borders on "frivolous," but details plans to prevent such abuse of the service in the future.

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/twitter-to-r...