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Twitter finally verifies verified accounts rumor
In response to a lawsuit by famed baseball manager Tony LaRussa, Twitter has decided to speed up the process of launching those verified accounts we've been hearing buzz about for the past few months. In a post on the Twitter blog, Biz Stone asserts that while there's no way Twitter's going to pay off LaRussa after their support team got rid of the impostor, they're going to keep this kind of thing from happening in the future by adding a special badge to the accounts of notable people whose identities they can verify.
Because of the resources required, this is going to roll out slowly, starting with "public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes, and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation." Businesses won't be included in the initial test.
There's no launch date specified yet, but Twitter has begun to answer the sticky question of how they plan to verify the accounts. Apparently, a link to a Twitter account from the celebrity's official website is going to do the trick.
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Brandi said 8:11PM on 6-06-2009
great
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Shan said 10:35PM on 6-06-2009
great news! Hopefully this will put an end to all the fake celebrity accounts - which is just a joke at the moment.
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tingrin87 said 2:08AM on 6-07-2009
and how do they verify the "official" celebrity website?
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HardwareGuy said 10:57AM on 6-08-2009
Easy, they just check the celebrity's wikipedia entry and see which site is listed as their "official site".