Twitter removes verified blue tick from Vice President Venkaiah Naidu’s personal account, restores later

Twitter: Microblogging site Twitter on Saturday removed and later restored the blue tick verification badge from the personal account of India’s Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, showing that the company would remove the badge regardless of the importance of the position that the person occupies if their account is not meeting the requirements for verification badge. The badge was removed briefly from the handle @MVenkaiahNaidu apparently due to “inactivity.” The official Twitter handle of the Indian Vice President, @VPSecretariat, continued to remain verified.

Twitter’s verification badge lets other users know about the authenticity of an account that is made in public interest, and for that, the account needs to be notable, authentic as well as active.