Twitter Delays Blue Tick Account Verification Again After Eight Days

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JAKARTA - It's only been eight days since Twitter announced an account verification program to get a blue tick badge. And yesterday Saturday, May 29, the company announced that it had closed this program. Only eight days!

Through a tweet shared by Verified's official Twitter account, @verified, the company revealed that too many account verification requests were received. Therefore, Twitter was forced to ignore some of the new requests.

According to the company's explanation, this delay will last until Twitter is able to identify all user requests. Unfortunately, it is not explained how long the delay will be.

“We will reopen soon! (We pinky swear)", wrote Twitter, Saturday, May 29.

We're rolling in verification requests. So we gotta hit pause on accepting any more for now while we review the ones that have been submitted. We'll reopen requests soon! (we pinky swear)

— Twitter Verified (@verified) May 28, 2021

The previous Pause Lasted Up To Four Years!

This is not the first time Twitter has delayed the blue tick account verification process. To be precise, this is the second hiatus the company has made since launching the blue tick badge feature.

Twitter first launched this feature in 2017. At that time, the company immediately opened up opportunities for anyone to get this prestigious badge. Literally, anyone.

As a result, at that time the company received criticism from netizens for being caught verifying accounts that supported white supremacists. In fact, this is an issue that is considered to violate community rules.

Indeed, at that time Twitter immediately gave an answer to netizens' criticism. One of the social media giants admitted that the verification program began to lose direction and purpose.

Initially, according to the company's explanation via The Verge, Twitter stated that this program was an account identity authentication process. However, over time, the blue tick badge is actually interpreted as a form of promotion from Twitter itself.

Yes, the situation is really chaotic and forced the company to postpone the program. Until eight days ago, Twitter again presented this program.

Of course, in the spirit of not repeating the same mistakes, the company applies several rules regarding accounts that are entitled to blue ticks.

These include official government accounts, companies, trademarks, organizations, news organizations, journalists, entertainment accounts, sports and gaming accounts, activists, organizational activists, and figures who have influence in the digital world.

Not only that, the authentication process is even more complicated. For example, the account owner must include a photo of his identity card. As for professionals, it is mandatory to include an employee ID card that can be used as a reference for the validity of the account.