Twitter resumed the account verification request process after halting it in 2017 and introducing a new policy earlier this year, with new criteria that users must meet to qualify for a blue badge.
The new account verification policy went into effect on January 22, 2021. Designed from user feedback, it modifies the requirements to qualify for the blue verification badge, and introduces new categories for account types candidates for verification.
The company has automatically removed the badge from accounts that no longer meet the updated verification criteria, such as those that are inactive or incomplete. And as of this Thursday, the application process has been resumed, as reported.
Twitter paralyzed the previous system due to a controversy that arose in 2017 when it was discovered that it had granted the mark to Jason Kessler, organizer of the supremacist march in Charlottesville, in the United States, which ended in the death of one person.
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Source: Xataka
