Twitter has yet again halted its account verification programme, proclaiming that it wants to improve and enhance the application and review procedure to provide users with that evasive blue badge.
This statement came after Twitter admitted the previous month that it had permanently suspended a “small number” of fake accounts that it inadvertently verified after re-launching its public verification programme.
“We’ve temporarily hit pause on rolling out access to apply for Verification so we can make improvements to the application and review process,” the company averred in a tweet late on Friday.
“For those who have been waiting, we know this may be disappointing. We want to get things right, and appreciate your patience,” the micro-blogging platform asserted.
“We have now permanently suspended the accounts in question, and removed their verified badge, under our platform manipulation and spam policy,” Twitter said in a statement.
In May, it relaunched its latest verification application process, commencing with six different categories, and crosschecked public applications globally to enable its users to get the quintessential blue badge of verification on the micro-blogging platform.
Inscribed with applications, Twitter later stopped its blue badge verification programme just after a week of its official launch, stating that it is now looping in verifications requests that have reached it.
After the initial launch of 2017, the company relaunched the verification programme with six different specifications: government; companies, brands and organisations; news organisations and journalists; entertainment; sports and gaming; and activists, organisers and other influential individuals.
Adding which, Twitter will bring in more categories later this year, such as scientists, academics and religious leaders.
