Twitter verifications paused again after fake author account gets badge

The coveted blue badge of Twitter’s verification has had a rocky story. The company allowed users to request the verification, but the company removed this option in 2017, choosing to check instead of accounts. Things have changed several times since then, but it looks like Twitter still has not retrieved his verification problems.

Twitter’s verification misfortunes started at the end of 2017 once the company verified the account that had belonged to a known white surremacist. The company had declared at the time that, while the verification desired as a means of authenticating which is behind the account, the users had rather started to consider it as an “endorsement or indicator of importance”.

This disconnection between intent and perception, as well as the reaction against the above verification, resulted in the suspension of the account verification request option. Instead, the company has seen and verified the audited accounts according to its own standards.

After four long years, things started to change when Twitter introduced new audit rules in December 2020, which could be eligible to obtain the verification badge. The functionality of verification requests increased again in May, although it is initially limited to “notable” users and marks.

Shortly after opening the Audit Process in May, the Company again settled it again due to the huge number of verification requests it received, subsequent reopening on applications. Fast forward to August and Twitter once again pauses the verification request option, claiming that it needs more time for improvements and the review process.

The decision comes only days after its revelation that Twitter had verified a false account awarded to the author Cormac McMarthy. The company reversed the verification and did not enlive the way the false account was able to obtain the check checked.