Facebook Copies Twitter Again With Verified Profiles and Pages

First Facebook swoops in and steals Instagram away from Twitter and then it hijacks Twitter’s hashtag and now it’s targeting the blue tick – THE BLUE TICK!

Stay calm.

We expect it will re-envision groups as chat rooms some time in the future and start wearing similar clothes and other Single White Female-style things.

With the alleged goal of “helping users identify authentic accounts” (because who would cop to stalker mentality?), Facebook announced today that it is, just like Twitter, is now offering verified profiles and pages.

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