> Nowadays it just means “this persons views are representative of Twitter staff”.
For example both Sanders and Trump have a blue tick. They obviously can’t simultaneously be representative of a majority of Twitter’s staff’s views, can they? And I’d estimate Trump isn’t representative of a substantial number of these west-coast tech workers at all. So that doesn’t seem to hold up.
Trump is a special case in that Twitter said that they would treat heads of state (both foreign and domestic) differently. They might have something internal for accounts with large followings (Kardashians).
Assange is an interesting case in that despite renown and following they refuse to give him a check mark and suspended the WL account as well.
Ok, excluding heads of state, and even other politicians, are for example the views of Jordan Peterson representative of Twitter employees? Seems unlikely.
I expect his is a holdover from before and it will be revoked as soon as they notice.
PS I tweaked my comment after you started to write your reply but before I saw it; the wording is better now but the meaning is basically the same. Sorry!
For example both Sanders and Trump have a blue tick. They obviously can’t simultaneously be representative of a majority of Twitter’s staff’s views, can they? And I’d estimate Trump isn’t representative of a substantial number of these west-coast tech workers at all. So that doesn’t seem to hold up.