Twitter Says Account Verification to Return in Early 2021

[MacRumors]

Twitter will re-open account verification requests early next year, the company announced this week, bringing brand-new guidelines for users seeking the little tick next to their Twitter handle.

Rumors that Twitter has been working on a new verification system first appeared in June, but the company has now officially confirmed its return in a blog post, in which it asked for feedback on a draft proposal for verification.

"We plan to relaunch verification, including a new public application process, in early 2021," the company said. "But first, we need to update our verification policy with your help. This policy will lay the foundation for future improvements by defining what verification means, who is eligible for verification and why some accounts might lose verification to ensure the process is more equitable."

Assuming the proposal stays the same, accounts that will be eligible for verification include government officials, companies, brands and nonprofit organizations, news outlets and freelance journalists, entertainment and sports, activists, organizers, and other influential individuals.

If a profile becomes inactive or incomplete, the proposals suggest it could be stripped of verification, while accounts that fail to adhere to the social network's rules could also lose their verified status.

Twitter is asking users to fill in a survey on how the verification process should be operated, and says it's working with organizations for additional feedback. Going into 2021, the company says it also plans to give Twitter users more ways to identify themselves, such as new account types and labels, although what form they will take has yet to be revealed.


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[Marbles1]

Verified accounts should be prohibited from changing their handles rapidly. In the Uk the Conservative party did this to pretend it was 'FactCheckUK' during one of the election debates.

 

[Aluminum213]

My number one goal in life is to have that blue check

 

[jimbobb24]

That about sums up the cesspool of political activism that is twitter. The tool by which we mob people and destroy their lives for mistakes they made 10 years ago.

 

[Kirkster]

Is twitter still a thing? Last I saw it was just a place for people to post snarky random sentences, and others to post back about how dumb they are for said random sentence.

 

[mattwolfmatt]

My number one goal in life is to have that blue check

If this is true, I honestly feel sorry for you.

 

[AstonSmith]

Is twitter still a thing? Last I saw it was just a place for people to post snarky random sentences, and others to post back about how dumb they are for said random sentence.

It's still a good way to complain to companies who ignore complaints not made in public.

 

[SirAnthonyHopkins]

If this is true, I honestly feel sorry for you.

If you honestly think it was true, then I feel sorry for you

 

[breather]

Everyone real should get a blue check. I'm sure there is ways to use already established ways of knowing if someone is a real person, in Sweden we could use BankID.

 

[nwcs]

When has the blue check accomplished anything meaningful? Maybe only for singular corporate and government accounts that represent said entities. Individuals don’t need them.

 

[Kylo83]

Nah I’m cool

 

[Enlightened Doggo]

Twitter seems to be progressively engineering with the intent of stratifying people into a social hierarchy, where for some godforsaken reason journalists' troll accounts unbound from editorial review are considered authoritative.

 

[and 1989 others]

I honestly do not know why people still use Twitter. It literally provides nothing of any value to your life.

 

[assb10yr]

How’s this different from the social credit system in China?

 

[currocj]

Triply verified blue checks require lots of proof.

But voting to elect the most influential person on the planet? Meh, ID is over-rated /sarc

 

[George Dawes]

There’s so many alternatives nowadays I’m amazed Twitter with its draconian rules is so popular

 

[JosephAW]

It’s been proven you can get hundreds of thousands of followers without it so it’s obsolete

 

[duanepatrick]

This is honestly good news. I wonder how strict will the verification process will be next year.

 

[Aluminum213]

If this is true, I honestly feel sorry for you.

And I feel sorry for you for not having such a goal, imagine being on social media without verification?!?! Yikes

 

[IowaAppleGuy]

I honestly do not know why people still use Twitter. It literally provides nothing of any value to your life.

Really? You can’t think of one single use case where it’s beneficial? I never even open the app I just get tweet notifications from a select few (Hawkeye, Colts, Red Sox beat reporters, MacRumors, etc.) so I know immediately about goings ons.

 

[IowaAppleGuy]

There’s so many alternatives nowadays I’m amazed Twitter with its draconian rules is so popular

Found the guy with a Parler account.

 

[superlawyer15]

Twitter is a drag on society. It provides exactly nothing of value while at the same time impeding society's ability to engage in civil discourse.

 

[IowaAppleGuy]

Twitter is a drag on society. It provides exactly nothing of value while at the same time impeding society's ability to engage in civil discourse.

Yeah that’s why they should implement what a previous poster said. Everyone should have to get verified so you can’t make dummy accounts. Only way to end people being so ****** is removing anonymity.

 

[IowaAppleGuy]

Twitter is a drag on society. It provides exactly nothing of value while at the same time impeding society's ability to engage in civil discourse.

I don’t think you guys know what “exactly nothing” means. Maybe follow a sport? By far the quickest and most digestible way of getting immediate news.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

How is the new verification system different from the old one?