Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Twitter makes blue checkmark available to everyone – De Gelderlander

The blue tick twitter accounts is available today to ask everyone. The blue tick, which until now was only for celebrities and brands available, you can see if an account verified by Twitter and is reliable.

From this website Twitter you can apply the so much coveted checkmark by twitter users. Your tweets should be public and you get it only in exchange for your date of birth and telephone number.

Important
Twitter has announced that not everyone gets the tick. The account must include ‘of general interest’. After viewing the application or Twitter account is important enough. If you’ve got the blue checkmark once, you can never change the user name.

With the verification, you get certain privileges. So you can if verified user eg filter your notifications so you only answer, appointments and the likes of you seeing other authenticated users.

,, We want to make it easier for people to find influential people on Twitter. For us it is therefore a logical choice to set the authentication option available to anyone, ” said Tina Bhatnagar, deputy director of Twitter in a statement. ,, In this way, we hope that people can follow more good, qualitative accounts and verified that people can make a connection with a broader audience. “” Of the more than 300 million Twitter accounts, there are some 200,000 verified at this time.

After the attacks in Nice, France last week Twitter remarkably quickly acted to remove jihadist accounts spread propaganda. Never before has the media responded so efficiently. At this moment it is already possible to show only authenticated tweets. By expanding the number of verified accounts, Twitter seems to want to preserve the timeline for violent accounts.

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