Aaron Parecki

I'm excited that beginning tomorrow, if I see a tweet from a celebrity or company I've heard of, I will have to click through to their profile, check their follower count, and scroll through 10 more of their most recent tweets to try to make an educated guess if it's really them

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Well it was fun while it lasted! Since anyone can now use this to social engineer folks, you'll probably see less of me as I work on growing my community on other platforms (like YouTube!).

surprising amount of overlap between the “there are only two genders, you can’t deny science” and the “don’t get vaccinated, the scientists are liars” crowd

Say what you will about Elon, but it is truly impressive to be so uncool to your very core that despite every potential resource on the planet at your disposal you still make a service so spectacularly lame that guys who make 50 mil a year will make a point not to give you $8

11) Tonight is another test of that resilience. While a lot of web3 stuff has proven nonsense, the underlying principle that creators should have ownership in the consumer facing platforms that their content powers is still a vibrant idea, one most creators passionately believe.

1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is.

#LegacyVerified #NeverForget