原推：Before open verification follower count alone wasn’t a reliable metric because it could be easily/inexpensively gamed.
Now that there is a paid tier, number of verified followers can become a good proxy metric for impact
(and can be visually indicated somehow for easy scanning) https://t.co/EOBN3tULvK
To me, the blue-check was a convenient way to scan tweets/mentions that were likely going to get amplified because they often had high follower counts + were considered more trusted. If the check isn’t that, maybe there can be other, better ways to filter tweets? cc: @elonmusk