I don't do Twitter. Can someone please tell me the purpose and importance of the twitter blue checkmark? And why is it worth paying for it?
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It’s to verify that a person is who they claim to be. Its purpose started out as verifying a well-known person to avoid fake accounts, but it devolved into another political weapon for the left. They verify every connected leftist with 1,000 followers, but most on the right can’t get verified despite having hundreds of thousands of followers. The left uses it as a status symbol.