Twitter’s Verified Accounts For Famous Celebrities
Written by Serena Obhrai on June 13, 2009 · Filed under Internet, Tech
The popular social networking tool is currently in its beta phases to create Twitter accounts, which they are referring to as verified accounts – a bit like what Paypal does to authenticate users, except not so damn complicated. They are apparently having trouble with false accounts being created, especially for celebrities, whereby identities are faked and tweets are just simply not from that user.
Although they will verify the account, Twitter do say that the person who is actually tweeting may not necessarily be said celebrity, for example. So, if you’re following Jeremy Clarkson it could potentially be his long lost uncle posting on his behalf. They do also ask you to check the person’s official website to see if they have linked back to Twitter, in case you are still wondering who it is you’re actually following. If you yourself are having issues with identity confusion and/or there are people out there pretending to be you, do contact Twitter and let them know.
This will go a long way to ensure the idiots out there do stop making life hell for the rest of us, but since they have so many celebrities to actually verify first, the little people like us will have to wait in line. There’ll be a very noticeable badge on your Twitter account once you are verified so other users can tell the difference.
I giggled at the account that Twitter have already verified to show us what one looks like. Click it and chuckle with me.
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Nice write-up:-). I just wanted to throw this out there, it’s not just the little guys waiting. Many of the folks with large followings are too. I wanted to point that out as the way Twitter is handling things is not so much about preferential treatment to celebrities, but about protecting accounts with known imposter problems and other issues.
They have a form you can fill out if you have had imposter issues in the past as well.
I’m guessing anyone with large enough number of followers is well known enough to be impersonated, so it’s perhaps good to hear that you don’t have to be a mainstream “celebrity” for your issues to be taken seriously.