Twitter pauses verifying accounts again after mistakenly giving blue ticks to fake accounts

While Twitter has suggested that admitting the fake accounts was part of a botnet, Facebook’s former chief security officer, Alex Stamos, suggested that the verification could have been an inside job.

Twitter has yet again paused its recently brought verification program after it assigned blue ticks to fake accounts. Twitter has currently paused verification requests and will not let new people apply for verification, as the platform noted it verified several fake accounts inadvertently. In a blog post, Twitter noted that it mistakenly approved verified applications and has now permanently suspended the accounts in question and removed their verified badge.