{"id":25017,"date":"2019-04-16T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25017"},"modified":"2019-04-16T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:48:26","slug":"twitters-complicated-and-messy-verification-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/twitters-complicated-and-messy-verification-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter&rsquo;s Complicated and Messy Verification Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/twitter-verification-process\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/twitter-verification-process\/\">\n<p>In November 2017 Twitter announced it would be suspending its public verification process[&#8230;] However, the company never actually stopped verifying accounts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/40514426\/twitter-has-quietly-started-verifying-users-again\">Cale Guthrie Weissman reported<\/a> in 2018 for <em>Fast Company<\/em> that users were still being given a checkmark; and, today, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/twitter-verification-pause\/\">Karissa Bell reports<\/a> for <em>Mashable<\/em> that the process has continued[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Twitter seems utterly confused about what its verification program ought to be. Should it be just a simple way to communicate that an account is run by a real person or company, rather than an impersonator or a robot? Should it be only for public figures? What <em>is<\/em> a public figure anyhow, in Twitter&rsquo;s view?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer: In November 2017 Twitter announced it would be suspending its public verification process[&#8230;] However, the company never actually stopped verifying accounts. Cale Guthrie Weissman reported in 2018 for Fast Company that users were still being given a checkmark; and, today, Karissa Bell reports for Mashable that the process has continued[&#8230;] [&#8230;] Twitter seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-04-16T19:48:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"218916bd-f3f2-4761-ad7b-01622958fcd0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-16T19:48:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIYkWvfPyR2GtewFiKVj80A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,96],"class_list":["post-25017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-twitter","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25018,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25017\/revisions\/25018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}