{"id":29492,"date":"2020-11-25T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29492"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:18:03","slug":"bring-on-the-blue-checkmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29492","title":{"rendered":"BRING ON THE BLUE CHECKMARKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will be updating its process to verify accounts and relaunching its public application process after a three-year pause, the company said in a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/grrnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwkmggn_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/grrnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwkmggn_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606429578774000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEsyeObIYyeJZAV2BA4HPVBP16n0Q\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mntsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcwtpyyp_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mntsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcwtpyyp_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606429578774000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGX-KhG0A2d5079nlZirEKSgv0A4g\">released a draft<\/a>\u00a0of its new verification policy detailing criteria for accounts to receive the platform\u2019s token blue check badge, as well as reasons accounts may lose their verification.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said it plans to relaunch a new public application process early next year as part of the plans to build its verification policy.<\/p>\n<p>The company paused its public verification process in 2017, after public backlash over Twitter\u2019s decision to verify the account of Jason Kessler, the organizer of the white supremacist \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Twitter has been vague about which accounts become verified and when.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know how important it is to be able to express yourself and understand who you\u2019re talking to on Twitter. So today, we\u2019re sharing the start of our plans to revamp how people can identify themselves on Twitter, starting with verification,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will be updating its process&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29493,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492\/revisions\/29493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}