Twitter adds phone verification for Blue service to avoid impersonation

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has said that phone verification is required to get a verified blue checkmark, to prevent impersonation of accounts.

Twitter posted a picture on Sunday which mentioned, “Blue subscribers with a verified phone number will get a blue checkmark once approved.”

Later, Esther Crawford, the product manager at Twitter, said that the micro-blogging platform added a review step before users are granted a blue checkmark.

Crawford wrote: “We’ve added a review step before applying a blue checkmark to an account as one of our new steps to combat impersonation (which is against the Twitter Rules).”