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Twitter Said to Re-Launch Verification Program Next Week

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Twitter will re-launch its long-awaited verification program next week, according to researcher Jane Manchum Wong.

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Twitter verification has been a mainstay of the social media platform since 2009. A blue checkmark by a user's name indicates that they are verified, helping observers to distinguish genuine notable account holders, such as celebrities, politicians, or organizations, from impostors or parodies, and proves that the account is actually owned by the person or organization it claims to represent.
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Wong explained that "multiple sources" have said that Twitter will launch its new Verification Request form as soon as next week, allowing unverified users to put themselves forward for the blue checkmark.

Earlier this month, Wong revealed images purporting to show the stages of Twitter's redesigned Verification Request form. Users will need to explain who they are, give account qualifications such as news coverage, provide identification, and wait for a response.



Twitter originally reached out to notable users themselves to confirm their identities for a verified badge and launched a verification request system in 2017. Later that year, Twitter suspended the verification program after a number of controversies and an inability to cope with the volume of requests, leaving no official way for users to put themselves forward for verification.

Unverified Twitter users have had to wait years for the company to re-launch its verification program after it was suspended. In November of last year, the company announced that it would start reviewing applications for verification in early 2021 under new guidelines.

To be eligible for verification, users must be both "notable" and "active." Notable users must fall under the category of "government," "companies, brands, and organizations," "news organizations and journalists," "entertainment," "sports and gaming," or "activists, organizers, and other influential individuals."

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This Twitter verification appears to be another example of Twitter deciding who is important and relevant on its platform, to control the narrative they are pushing. I prefer to stick with a social media platform that supports and encourages free speech instead of the censorship or control of opposing viewpoints.
 
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How does this program work for people with the same name as a celebrity? You'd still be verified as, let's say, Jennifer Connelly. Just not the Jennifer Connely.

adamw said:
Twitter has lost much of its user base due to their censorship of tweets and accounts. This Twitter verification appears to be another example of Twitter deciding who is important and relevant on its platform. I prefer to stick with a Free Speech social media platform instead.
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While I don't like or use Twitter. As far as I can tell. Their Daily Active Users has been increasing steadily. While Monthly Active Users had a short dip but recovered and increased.

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I wish they would let anyone become verified with their real names, with the option to block unverified users if wanting to.

Then they can still do the exact same thing by “censoring” the lies and misinformation one specific political spectrum loves to use as its weapon of fear tactics and culture wars. Then those “Patriots” will just have to find something else to cry about.
 
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Eh, Twitter is just an echo chamber anyway, so I don't use it.

Instead, I frequent other sites and IRL locations where people agree with me about echo chambers being bad.
 
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How about a blue checkmark for verified "high profile individuals" and a green checkmark for us regular folks who are sane enough on the platform to give them our real name and aren't miserable troll bots. eBay has offered ID verified protection for decades.
 
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there's an arugement to suggest that everyone who uses it should be "verified" to prove who they really are.
might get rid of a lot of the keyboard warriors.
 
velocityg4 said:
How does this program work for people with the same name as a celebrity? You'd still be verified as, let's say, Jennifer Connelly. Just not the Jennifer Connely.



While I don't like or use Twitter. As far as I can tell. Their Daily Active Users has been increasing steadily. While Monthly Active Users had a short dip but recovered and increased.

www.businessofapps.com

Twitter Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025)

Twitter is a real-time microblogging platform, publicly launched in July 2006. At launch, its defining features were the tight limits placed on each post, known at a tweet. Originally, users could only use 140 characters, although that has been elongated over the years. Formed by former Odeo...
www.businessofapps.com www.businessofapps.com
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It's not purely name based?
 
While the verification system was paused, a lot of people still magically got a checkmark.
 
adamw said:
This Twitter verification appears to be another example of Twitter deciding who is important and relevant on its platform, to control the narrative they are pushing. I prefer to stick with a social media platform that supports and encourages free speech instead of the censorship or control of opposing viewpoints.
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If someone wants to exercise their free speech then why not be mobile and go speak at a public square? The people who decide not to stand there and listen will most likely “decide” that that person isn’t important just as Twitter does.

Of course getting on your feet and being mobile is too much to ask for the lazy people (I use ‘people’ loosely) who just want to post their speech on social media because it hardly requires any work.
 
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Haven't had a problem getting accounts verified since they shut down the old request system. Can still request and they were still verifying legit accounts from media and popular persons.
 
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