This one can easily be blamed on apple. I wonder how many awful design decisions we suffered because of their trendsetting

i m not saying it's right, but also don't see a lot of value in handles

Twitter has 2 levels of verification tag that's what usually verifies users, as there are so many impersonators. Even when twitter removes the verification (like they did for iran's foreign minister) , people use other channels to point to the real one.

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