{"id":251689,"date":"2018-03-09T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=251689"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:58:13","slug":"twitter-to-reopen-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/251689-twitter-to-reopen-verification.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to reopen verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/971853518360297473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>relaunch verification<\/strong><\/a> and make it possible for everyone on the service to get verified.<\/p>\n<p>Verification on Twitter was a manual process that resulted in a blue checkmark being displayed next to your name.<\/p>\n<p>The process was closed following backlash from users after Twitter verified &#8220;white supremacists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The intention is to open verification to everyone. And to do it in a way that is scalable,&#8221; said Dorsey.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter previously said that while it uses the blue checkmark to refer to identity, it was seen by users as an endorsement or a sign of Twitter stating the user is credible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was only given to certain very large public figures, celebrities&#8230; it came to have a lot of status associated with it, as well,&#8221; said Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/251469-twitter-implementing-measures-to-prevent-crypto-scams.html\">Twitter implementing measures to prevent crypto scams<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social network aims to relaunch verification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":106057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49343,7407,405],"class_list":["post-251689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-david-gasca","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251711,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251689\/revisions\/251711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}