Twitter will modify its policy for account verification and include new categories that will allow users, such as gamers and activists, verify their accounts.
In November it had already been announced that Twitter planned to restart processes to verify accounts.
Verified accounts include a logo with a popcorn symbol that confirms the authenticity of the user of Twitter.
While the processes to verify accounts were closed, the social network was in charge of surveying its users to design a new verification policy.
We will begin enforcing this policy on January 20, 2021, when we will also begin automatically removing the verified badge from inactive and incomplete accounts.
announced the social network on its blog.
The new policy creates a novel categorization of verified accounts. We clarified the headings of the “News” category to include “News and Journalists” and the “Sports” category to include “Sports and esports” to be more inclusive. We also added a reference in our “Entertainment” category to more clearly include digital content creators
, was detailed on the Twitter blog.
New categories to verify accounts on Twitter
The new categories will be the following:
- Companies, brands and organizations.
- News organizations and journalists.
- Entertainment.
- Sports and videogames.
- Activists, organizers and other influential people.
In accordance with our policy, we may also remove verification for accounts found to be in serious or repeated violation of the Twitter Rules.
the company added.
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