Twitter exploring letting everyone get a blue tick for verification, CEO Jack Dorsey says
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the company hopes to open its blue tick verification to everyone one day. The company admitted that its blue checkmark, which was introduced in 2009, has caused "confusion" as people think it means that Twitter backs a person's view. Twitter hopes to change this …
Twitter is considering verifying all of its users
Twitter may soon have everyone on the social platform prove their identity by opening the verification process to all users. Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey said Friday that the company intends to find a way to allow all users to verify. "And to do it in a way that is scalable, …
Twitter Wants to Verify All Users as a Way to Prove Identity
Human, or bot? Twitter may soon have everyone on the social platform prove their identity by opening the verification process to all users. Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey said Friday that the company intends to find a way to allow all users to verify. “And to do it in a way …
On Twitter, fake news spreads faster and further than real news — and bots aren’t to blame
On Twitter, fake news spreads faster and further than real news — and bots aren't to blame. Karen Kaplan … An analysis of roughly 126,000 stories tweeted by 3 million people shows that false news spreads substantially faster on Twitter that true news, and to far more people. (Christian Bertrand … …
Jack Dorsey pledges Twitter will improve blue check mark verification system
SAN FRANCISCO — A better version of the verification system is coming soon to Twitter, according to CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey made the comment during a Periscope livestream Thursday in which he discussed the San Francisco company's efforts to measure the "health" of public conversation, … Read More
Twitter’s solution to its verification problem is to verify everyone
During a Periscope chat yesterday (March 8), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey described the company's verification process as “broken” and said it is reevaluating how it grants the status to users. His proposed solution: Make it open to everyone. “The intention is to open verification to everyone,” Dorsey said. Read More
Twitter appoints Parag Agrawal as Chief Technology Officer
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc appointed Parag Agrawal as Chief Technology Officer on Thursday, according to an update on the social media company's website. FILE PHOTO: The Twitter application is seen on a phone screen August 3, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/File Photo. Parag Agrawal, who joined … Read More
Twitter plans to give verification ticks to everyone (yes, that means you)
It comes after Dorsey admitted verification is "broken" on the platform, and a small team under Twitter product director David Gasca has been tasked to rethink how the verification system works. Originally intended for users to distinguish between the real and parody Twitter accounts of high profile … Read More
Science Has Confirmed How Fake News Spreads Faster Than Truth on Twitter
False news moved through Twitter "farther, faster, deeper and more broadly" than the truth, said Sinan Aral, a professor of information technology at MIT who studies social media networks. The study authors aimed to be apolitical in distinguishing what was true or false. They deliberately did not use the … Read …
Study: False News 70 Percent More Likely to Spread on Twitter
False news stories spread much more quickly and widely on Twitter than truthful ones, an imbalance driven more by people than automated "bot" accounts, researchers said on Thursday. A study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab examining about 126,000 stories … Read More