Twitter halts 'blue tick badge’ verification days after relaunch

The social network introduced new guidelines for verified accounts on the platform, intended to “encourage healthy conversations for the betterment of the Twitter community overall”, the company had said in a statement.

(Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click to subscribe for free.) Twitter Inc said it has paused its verification programme due to overflow of requests. . It said , the service will be resumed soon, and that in the meantime, it will process existing requests. A verified account on Twitter gets the ‘blue tick badge’ to distinguish accounts that are high profile. Twitter halted the programme in 2017 after facing backlash for attaching a blue tick mark to a white supremacist account that made distressing comments on the platform. The tech firm clarified that it will introduce new guidelines for verification, and will remove blue ticks from accounts that misbehave.