When I was on Twitter the fact that I didn't have a blue check never bothered me. I understood it. I never had more that a few hundred followers and so why would I have a blue check? And it was the blue check accounts that I most gravitated too. They had hundreds of thousands of followers for a reason, many were prominent journalists and thinkers that were worth reading.

But now you can get a blue check by paying for it and it's another reminder why I left twitter.