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Last Checked April 3, 2023

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Sat Nov 12 03:02:52 +0000 2022

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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

...and while he settled, that's when Twitter didn't have much of a choice but to roll out Blue Check Marks, or "Verified Accounts Beta," as it was called at the time. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022

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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

In 2009 it became kind of an epidemic, if you will, on Twitter. There was a fake Kanye (Ye was not happy about it!) and then there was a fake Tony La Russa (the St. Louis Cardinals manager) and he was so pissed he decided to sue Twitter... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022

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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

"We’ll be experimenting with a beta preview of what we’re calling Verified Accounts this summer," @Biz wrote in 2009. "The experiment will begin with public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes, and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022

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