Twitter Halts Blue Badge Verifications Until It Understand What It Really Is

Twitter's blue verification badge can be something to be proud of on "280-characters" social media.

But there were confusion regarding that famous symbol: it was initially meant to authenticate identity and voice, but somehow it is interpreted as an endorcement or an indicator of importance, tweeted Matt Navarra from The Next Web.

While Twitter said that the company won't give the blue badge to anyone that asks for it, and the blue badge might not have been conceived as anything prestigious. But the badge has been around for visual identify that elevates ego, to those who have them.

it started a confusion regarding what really is that blue check mark badge.

The question made Twitter to no longer hand out verification to users until Twitter itself understand the meaning of it.

The main problem about the famous blue badge is that it creates a thought that people that have been granted, are more popular or famous than others. This makes the badge a mark of prestige, no matter how hard Twitter is saying that it isn't.

According to The Next Web, this explains why responses to the Twitter Support tweet "are all some variation on 'You verified Party X but not me, so clearly it was broken.'"

Twitter said in that verification "is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance." What this means is that it didn't really intend for the badge to be seen that way. However, the description of verification said that the company preemptively verifies accounts it deems notable.

So the question is: if verification is not an indicator of importance, then how does Twitter determine which accounts are notable?

Twitter has no clear guideline for verification, and this makes it seems to be favoring some users above others.