{"id":152210,"date":"2022-12-08T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/schrodingers-blue-check-according-to-twitter-i-may-or-may-not-be-notable"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:28:38","slug":"schrodingers-blue-check-according-to-twitter-i-may-or-may-not-be-notable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/schrodingers-blue-check-according-to-twitter-i-may-or-may-not-be-notable","title":{"rendered":"Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s blue check: according to Twitter, I may or may not be notable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_rjBWmc1iQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Twitter is rumored to re-roll-out its flopped Twitter Blue subscription tomorrow, which will once again enable people to pay real cash money to get a blue check next to their name. Hopefully, this time, it won\u2019t lead to mass impersonation and misinformation, but who can say? Yet already, some users are noting that when they click on an existing blue check (not of the $8 variety), they\u2019re served with a pop-up that says, \u201cThis is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is especially funny when it appears on accounts like The White House, or even Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter itself. To be fair, is Elon Musk really notable? He didn\u2019t even found Tesla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is rumored to re-roll-out its flopped Twitter Blue subscription tomorrow, which will once again enable people to pay real cash money to get a blue check next to their name. Hopefully, this time, it won\u2019t lead to mass impersonation and misinformation, but who can say? Yet already, some users are noting that when they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}