Vitalik Ways To Solve Twitter Blue Tick Issue

November 04, 2022

The blue checkmark is currently only available to a small percentage of users, as determined by Twitter itself.

Amid Elon Musk’s announcement of a new system that will allow anyone to have a blue tick if they pay $8 per month.

Vitalik, co-founder of Ethereum, expressed his ways to how he would solve the Blue Tick problem.

He believes that Twitter should de-emphasize "global" markers more broadly,

With this Twitter should lean into more local and view-dependent stuff.

He suggests that this is how they can detect fake accounts easily because it would have more visibility into local communities.

In his previous tweets, Vitalik said Elon could make Twitter “really great” or “really terrible”.