Twitter to bring back ‘blue tick’ in early 2021

Twitter will relaunch its account verification process early next year, whereby active and authentic user accounts can sport the ‘blue verified badge’.

Twitter had paused its public verification programme three years ago, after getting feedback that it felt arbitrary and confusing to many people.

“A year later, we deprioritised this work further to focus on protecting the integrity of the public conversation around critical moments like the 2020 US election,” Twitter said in a blog post.

The microblogging platform is now restarting the process and has asked the public to share feedback on a draft of its new verification policy starting November 24 up to December 8, 2020.