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Meanwhile, candidates like Joshua Collins[1] can't get verified, even after they changed the policy. An article about some others: https://thehill.com/policy/t

Meanwhile, candidates like Joshua Collins[1] can't get verified, even after they changed the policy. An article about some others: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/484453-twitter-falling-short-on-pledge-to-verify-primary-candidates https://thehill.com/policy/technology/484453-twitter-falling... [1]: https://twitter.com/Joshua4Congress https://twitter.com/Joshua4Congress

markdown 7y ago
AFAIK nobody can get verified. This has been the case for the past two years according to Twitter: https://twitter.com/verified https://twitter.com/verified
- mschuster91 7y ago
  There are cases especially for politicians and NGOs that do get a verification, I know of at least one that got verified two days ago. It's just extremely intransparent who gets verified, who can initiate a verification and what the criteria are. My guess is that contacts at major political parties / ad spenders help as these can ask via their ad account manager.
- uoaei 7y ago
  So who actually decides when to put blue checks on whom?
  - tomschlick 7y ago
    Twitter employees determine it based on unknown criteria and political agendas.
- nloomans 7y ago
  This isn't true. Take the @valvesoftware twitter account for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20191118232351/https:/twitter.com/valvesoftware https://web.archive.org/web/20191118232351/https:/twitter.co... The account was already verified right from the start.