A Twitter Alternative By Ex-Employee Is Capitalizing On Elon Musk’s Worst Trust Failure – SlashGear

One of the questions that T2 asks while submitting a verification request is whether your account was legacy verified or if you paid to get the blue badge after Musk’s decision to make a Twitter Blue subscription mandatory for enjoying the verified account status. However, you are only eligible if your account was verified based on its importance. Twitter Blue subscribers are not eligible, and neither can you apply for verification on T2 if you weren’t verified on Twitter. Once the aforementioned prerequisites are met, Twitter migrants users will have to submit details like their name, Twitter username, and their professional inclination, after which they’re given the option to pick up a T2 handle name.

The final step is submitting an email address where T2 will share further details about the verification request process. T2 co-founder says “the checkmark should be a safety feature of the platform” and that the company was even putting users on its waitlist that didn’t have a verified account on Twitter. T2 is trying to fill the void left by Twitter, where a verified blue badge no longer means you are a notable personality or an authentic source of information. With Musk stripping legacy account holders of their blue badge, most of whom are not willing to pay the Twitter Blue fee to keep it, the risks of fake news proliferation, inauthentic behavior, and scams on Twitter are expected to skyrocket.