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Is the blue checkmark supposed to help/protect the person tweeting or the people consuming the tweets?


Both. It is sort of an “honesty bond” that Twitter knows your details in return you get a status mark. Of course the bar is quite high these days for recourse.


Neither - it's supposed to help Twitter's profitability.




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