After holding different forums and stopping the program for a few years, Twitter relaunches its account verification program, that is, the application process to obtain the famous blue dove.
The firm led by Jack Dorsey warns that with this new verification program they will try to give greater credibility and clarity to the conversation on Twitter as well as include new account profiles as eligible to verify and thus be more inclusive.
But who is eligible to get the blue popcorn?
According to Twitter, eligible accounts must, first of all, comply 100% with the platform’s community rules and must fall under one of these categories to which scientists, academics and religious leaders will now also be added.
- government
- Companies, brands and organizations
- News organizations and journalists
- Entertainment
- Sports and games
- Activists, organizers and other influencers
B Byrne, Twitter Product Leader said that now the blue badge can be requested by any user, you just have to fill out a request and the team will review if this is possible.
To be eligible, the account must have a complete information profile- name and image-, be tied to an email and cell phone number that can be verified and remain active for at least six months, in addition to not having recently violated any rule of the community.
Byrne confirmed that while they know they will receive a wave of verification requests upon reopening this record, the verification process for each account will be overseen by a dedicated team of people, albeit with some automation tools.
Twitter shared with Unocero that although badges have been eliminated in the process of checking that the accounts that have them still meet all the requirements for it, they do not have a specific number of how many have lost the “blue dove”, so far.
The team also clarified that accounts that already have this badge today will not have to reapply for the new process. If you do the process to verify your account for the first time, Twitter will take between one and four weeks to give an answer, and if it is a no, you can try again after 30 days.
Not all bots are Russian
Along with the new wave of verification on Twitter, the company advanced other changes in the platform regarding automated accounts, since now these will be labeled so that the community knows that they are bots with a particular purpose.
Byrne spoke of examples of automated accounts such as those that have a practical purpose such as advising actions in the event of earthquakes or other disasters, or even the Big Ben account, which periodically tweets curious content as if it were this iconic London clock.
In addition to this, Twitter announced that there will be changes, later this year, in the way in which the profiles are seen and the information that a user can include about himself in them, such as the pronouns with which you want them to refer to you.