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Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg
The Twitter checkmark isn’t a status symbol. It’s much more useful than that. It allows you to quickly check whether someone is the real deal and not an impersonator. This improves Twitter overall, and impedes bad actors. So it should be free and universal, not a paid perk. — PolitiTweet.org