Twitter recently announced a simpler application process for verifying accounts which is a way of letting people know the real person or brand from the parodies, especially for celebrities or any other known person.
This was later adopted to other social networks like Facebook or Telegram and for a while now, it has become sort of “prestigious” to have that checkmark next to your social media account handle. Ever since Twitter started this, it was only given to celebrities and brands the verification badge from their research and if you wanted to get that verification badge, it was quite hard. If you’re interested in learning more about the application process, click here.
The process requires you to submit your personal data including your phone number, email address, a bio, profile photo, header photo, birthday information and a website. The fact that Twitter opened the application process to get a verification badge for all was a concern for one Shaula Evans who was skeptical in the issue of security.
Since it was a really long tweetstorm, you can check it in this Storify of the thread that was created by a certain Twitter user named Rayne Today.
Will this argument stop you from asking for verification? Well that depends on you but in this age of privacy issues, you can never be too sure.
