Inordinate interest in trivia
I guess there are only so many things to occupy the waking hours of a disinformation and social media correspondent, which is presumably why the BBC's Marianna Spring is reduced to counting celebrity losses and gains in the Twitter verification stakes. This is of such high import, that she's co-opted another lackey to help.
Yet the vast majority of the population doesn't use Twitter; is completely unimpacted by verification changes; and may well be completely ambivalent. It all vaguely brings to mind The Times' obituaries.* Strange. (shrug)
* Somewhere, lost in the mists of time and beer, I read of a later-famous writer/comedian/something who cut their teeth writing the obituaries for a leading British newspaper, it may or may not have been The Times. And, of which, they said, and I paraphrase somewhat: writing the obituaries is largely a case of announcing the death of Lord Ponsonby, to a world unaware that he'd ever lived.