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An artist created a satirical 'blue-check homes' website for influencers to 'verify' their houses. Hundreds of people signed up.
An artist created a satirical 'blue-check homes' website for influencers to 'verify' their houses. Hundreds of people signed up.
Annabelle WilliamsFeb 4, 2021, 01:48 IST
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The site satirizes Twitter's verification process and the accompanying social status.
Danielle Baskin's satirical website received nearly 500 responses, SFGate reported.
Twitter verification is a status symbol in its own right, and one that inevitably engenders strong reactions: envy, disdain, or desperation to name a few.
So San Francisco-based artist Danielle Baskin posed a question about extending the principle to real estate. Would people want to do business with a company that promised to plaster the app's signature blue checks on the front of their homes?It turns out that the answer is yes. Baskin told SFGate that she received 495 responses on her real website for the fake enterprise-bluecheckhomes.com-that she created and posted on Twitter last Saturday.