Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, November 25th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter is revving the Little Blue Checkmark engine back up but it will work slightly

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Twitter says it is bringing account verifications back. But if you're coveting one of those blue checkmarks like I am,

you might want to note that it's going to work slightly

differently this time because Twitter is going to do verification in one of six

categories when they spin this up again in early 2021. Quoating Tech Crunch.

Under the policy, Twitter will initially verify six types of accounts, including those belonging

to government officials, companies and brands, and-profit organizations news entertainment

sports and activists organizers and other influential individuals.

The number of categories could expand in time.

Twitter's verification system which provides a blue number of categories could expand in time.

Twitter's verification system, which provides a blue checkmark to designate accounts belonging

to public figures, was paused in 2017 as the company tried to address confusion over what it meant

to be verified. The company today shared a

draft of its new verification policy in order to gain public feedback. The policy

details more specifically which accounts can be verified and introduces

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