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All Things Internet's podcast

TanaCon

All Things Internet's podcast

Rachel Ballinger

Comedy

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Of course we talked about VidCon, TanaCon, IGTV, and much more. Then named Mama B's new chicks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to all things internet. I am your host Rachel Ballinger and I am here with the verified on Twitter.

0:10.0

Yeah, yeah. Gwen Ballinger, who is my mom, mom say hi. Hi. How are you today, mom? I'm so verifiably good.

0:18.4

I was gonna talk about this later, but we'll talk about it now. I was at VidCon and I was at the Twitter booth.

0:26.0

And last year at the Twitter booth, Jessica got verified. She went up because to get verified on Twitter, you just have to know someone.

0:35.0

And I was talking with a Twitter person. She was like, yeah, pretty much. There's no forms, there's no nothing.

0:40.0

It's just you have to know someone and they're like, yeah, you're verifiable. And that's it. Like that's it. So when I was at the booth, there was this guy that was who got Jessica verified last year.

0:51.0

He's like running the booth and I was getting my free swag, my free Twitter merge. And I looked at them and I was like, can you get my mom verified?

0:58.0

And he acted like it was an ask. It was a big ask. And I was like, never mind, never mind. It's cool. It was going to be like, I feel bad. I feel bad being greedy or whatever.

1:08.0

And so I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't bring it up again. And I was like, just just forget about it. It's okay.

1:12.0

Because I felt really bad. And then the next day you texted me, you got me verified. So apparently it worked. Yeah, Fern from the UK. Yeah, she's from the UK. I know Fern.

1:25.0

London, she's from London. I don't know. I know her little town. I don't know.

1:29.0

The London town. It's anyway. I don't know what we thought. She texted me on my phone. She's like, you're verifiable. And like, what?

1:36.0

Yeah. So she broke the news. Have you figured out any part of it? I've I've digged around a little. Have did you see the verified section?

1:43.0

It's the only part I care about being verified. Do you have all your notifications, your mentions, and in the verified section?

1:50.0

Yes. So if me or Kool-Li and her Christopher are just gonna like anything or tag you and anything, it's in there. Right. So I saw that after you were part. After you brought it out. Yes.

2:00.0

Because now I like that I can see when you like my stuff. I like everybody's everything. Yes.

2:06.0

Yeah, but before I never knew if you saw it, I never knew if you liked it because it was in the notifications that just flooded through.

2:12.0

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So now I can see when you do things. Cool. So I did this for a selfish reason.

2:16.0

No. I had nothing to do with you. It all had to do with me. Now am I going to get a text if I don't like something?

2:21.0

Are you going to say mom? No. I did. I was going to withhold for a while. See what you did.

2:27.0

Oh, I hit my microphone. All right. So let's VidCon happened. Talking about the Twitter booth VidCon happened.

2:35.0

I had a lovely experience. Yes. I haven't heard about it. Well, I had two meet and greets and then I did Kool-LiN's Q&A where I moderated it with Christopher and Corey.

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