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Twitter verified a bunch of bot accounts, granting them coveted blue check marks, and then reversed the decision, admitting it made a mistake.
The debacle swung the spotlight on the social network s system for verifying accounts, which is normally reserved for qualifying celebs, politicians, sports stars, experts, journos, and similar netizens.
A tweeter going by the handle Conspirador Norteño, who claims to fight online disinformation, found that none of the six accounts in question, created in June, had actually posted any tweets and that, for each of them, their thousand or so followers were largely the same accounts. Yet, the sextet had been verified as supposedly authentic and notable people by Twitter when they were anything but.
Published July 12, 2021
Andrew Hutchinson
Content and Social Media Manager
Have you recently applied for Twitter verification, and been subsequently rejected by the platform s assessment team?
This might help to soften the blow - despite launching a new and improved verification process back in May, designed to help signify notable identities in several defined categories, researchers have found that even Twitter s new system is still flawed, potentially in a big way, with several bot profiles, using entirely fake identities, being granted the prestigious blue tick.
A data researcher going by the name of Conspirador Norteño on the platform has identified six bot accounts, each created less than a month ago, that have been approved for verification, somehow making their way through Twitter s new, more rigorous testing process.