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by wodenokoto 1078 days ago
The problem with blue checkmark wasn’t that it was paid for verification. The problem was that there was no verification. You paid to be verified as anybody you’d like.

I’m no twitter owner, but to me the reasonable thing would be to put the name on the credit card on the account along with the checkmark.

That would scale for personal accounts, but not businesses. They could be charged extra and manually verified against national business registries.
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PaulHoule 1078 days ago
The comparables on my mind are the EV (Extended Validation) SSL certificates and the Legal Entity Identifier, both of which involve a lookup against business records for a corporation/LLC and have a sustainable cost of around $100 year.

EV failed in the marketplace. “No LEI, No Trade” made a lot of companies get an LEI but last time I looked it was widespread for companies to keep using their LEI without renewing it.

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