Hacker News
- Person creates fake but verified Nintendo Twitter account, and posts spam https://twitter.com/themattprov/status/1590476929294946304 13 comments
- Show HN: Like Twitter, but Immutable, Verifiable and Decentralized https://github.com/publiusfederalist/zooko 10 comments
- Twitter Is Mass Un-Verifying Alt-Right and White Supremacist Accounts http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/11/twitter-un-verifying-alt-right-accounts-like-richard-spencer.html 103 comments technology
- Twitter reinstates and re-verifies white nationalist Richard Spencer's personal account, says his accounts were banned for violating multiple accounts rule http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/11/13911182/twitter-ban-richard-spencer-alt-right 10 comments technology
- I've built emails finder and verifier for Twitter https://getpistachio.app 6 comments sideproject
- Elon Musk Fired Twitter Staff That Verify Politicians Ahead of Midterms https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fired-twitter-staff-verify-politicians-ahead-of-midterms-2022-11 734 comments politics
- Colin Delaney: "Do you know I am the first Tweet in WWE history? From the very first tweet from the verified WWE Twitter account is something about Mark Henry beating me. My wrestling career is just like wrestling figure facts. I’m a good trivia answer on a bunch of different things." https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2022/01/colin-delaney-recalls-wwe-edict-involving-shawn-michaels-move/ 47 comments squaredcircle
- “ The Bitfinex/Tether fraud is no longer some wild conspiracy from some asshole on Twitter. It’s a verified and convicted fraud by multiple government agencies. It’s time to ask why all the largest bitcoin exchanges are so close with the Tether fraud.” https://twitter.com/bitfinexed/status/1457685189505818629?s=21 76 comments btc
- After VP Venkaiah Naidu, Twitter drops verified blue tick from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's handle https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/vp-venkaiah-naidu-twitter-drops-verified-blue-tick-rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat-handle-1811176-2021-06-05 19 comments india
- FACT CHECK: On May 24, a hashtag started trending on Pakistani Twitter, demanding #JusticeforSunitaMasih. DailyScoopTV1 verified the news and found it to be misleading and false. https://twitter.com/dailyscooptv1/status/1397852933237231618?s=21 19 comments pakistan
- A massive twitter hack is underway targeting verified accounts. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised?__twitter_impression=true 29 comments worldnews
- When a Teenager Reportedly Invented a Fake Congressional Candidate, Twitter Verified the Made Up Politician's Account https://time.com/5793021/twitter-verified-fake-candidate/ 4 comments politics
- Twitter verified fake 2020 candidate created by hackers on steroids https://thehill.com/policy/technology/485192-twitter-verified-fake-2020-candidate-created-by-hs-student 3 comments worldnews
- A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate. Twitter verified it https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/28/tech/fake-twitter-candidate-2020/index.html 263 comments nottheonion
- A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate. Twitter verified it https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/28/tech/fake-twitter-candidate-2020/index.html 16 comments politics
- Twitter will no longer unilaterally suspend accounts verified by Pakistan govt | The Express Tribune https://tribune.com.pk/story/2075915/8-twitter-will-no-longer-suspend-accounts-verified-pakistan-govt/ 4 comments pakistan
- A strange Twitter glitch is censoring the left — and no one knows if it's a bug or a feature - Twitter is mum about a well-documented "bug" that seems to prevent verified accounts from getting ratioed https://www.salon.com/2019/09/19/a-strange-twitter-glitch-is-censoring-the-left-and-no-one-knows-if-its-a-bug-or-a-feature/ 89 comments technology
- JNU wants to Verify Historian Romila Thapar’s Degrees ! Twitter Seeks to See Modi and Irani’s https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/jnu-wants-to-verify-historian-romila-thapar-degrees-twitter-seeks-to-see-modi-and-irani 31 comments india
- Twitter removes verified status from Louis Farrakhan after ‘satanic Jew’ remark | Social media site appears to take the Nation of Islam leader’s official status away following comments which were labelled anti-Semitic http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/twitter-removes-verified-status-from-louis-farrakhan-after-satanic-jew-remark/ 3 comments worldnews
- The five best tweets from Keith Hernandez's newly verified and always hilarious Twitter account https://www.mlb.com/cut4/the-best-tweets-from-keith-hernandezs-verified-twitter-account/c-271752016 13 comments baseball
- Sean Hannity's Verified Twitter Account @seanhannity Is Suddenly Gone http://www.ibtimes.com/sean-hannitys-verified-twitter-account-seanhannity-suddenly-gone-2646208 628 comments politics
- Watford confirm that the verified Twitter account @StefanoOkaka does not belong to him https://twitter.com/watfordfc/status/949417733917167616 11 comments soccer
- Twitter suspends Pakistan's verified Defence handle for tweeting morphed image of Indian girl http://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/pakistan-defence-verified-handle-suspended-twitter-anti-india-morphed-image-kawalpreet-kaur/128563 3 comments worldnews
- Richard Spencer and others lose Twitter verified status under new guidelines https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/twitter-verified-blue-checkmarks-richard-spencer 4 comments worldnews
- How Aadhaar UID verified the identity of an anonymous Twitter handle [P] https://aamjanata.com/digital-india/aadhaar-uid-verified-identity-anonymous-twitter-handle/amp/ 9 comments india
- With all the drama and big news around the NBA, can't help but wonder how the hell Olden Polynice get verified on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/oldenpolynice1 6 comments nba
- Is this really KG's "verified" Twitter account? https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6oggn7/is_this_really_kgs_verified_twitter_account/ 93 comments nba
- WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users’ homes, families and finances https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/06/wikileaks-proposes-tracking-verified-twitter-users-homes-families-and-finances/?utm_term=.c79a6f06a3d1 22 comments politics
- Wikileaks whips up furor after proposing a database of verified Twitter users’ info http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/wikileaks-twitter-database/ 10 comments worldnews
- WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users' homes, families and finances https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/06/wikileaks-proposes-tracking-verified-twitter-users-homes-families-and-finances/?utm_term=.8eade75802e9&tid=sm_tw 7 comments technology
- We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships. - WikiLeaks Task Force https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/817431533183238144 4 comments privacy
- Getting Verified on #Twitter is now easy !!! http://gadgetsfreakworld.com/featured/how-to-get-a-verified-twitter-account/ 4 comments technology
- Twitter refuses to explain censorship of verified journalist accounts in post-coup Turkey http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/twitter-censorship-journalists-turkey-coup/ 17 comments technology
- Twitter kills PostGhost.com - site displayed deleted tweets for verified public figures http://postghost.com/home/shutdown/ 32 comments technology
- You are given the password to Darren Dreger's verified Twitter account and are allowed to post five tweets. What do you post in order to fuck with people? https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/4reelj/you_are_given_the_password_to_darren_dregers/ 51 comments hockey
- Argentina's Outgoing President Won’t Let Go of Social Media Accounts - Christina Fernandez de Kircher has lost her verified checkmark but will maintain control over now-defunct institutional Twitter accounts. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/argentinas-outgoing-president-wont-let-go-of-social-media-accounts 33 comments worldnews
- The verified Twitter account for WikiLeaks, the organization founded by Julian Assange that publishes state secrets, has lashed out at something called the “Jewish pro-censorship lobby” for “legitimiz[ing] attacks on “Charlie Hebdo for ‘offensive’ speech.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/01/08/wikileaks-jewish-pro-censorship-lobby-legitimized-attacks-on-charlie-hebdo/ 12 comments worldnews
- Apparently, Twitter no longer verifies celebrity accounts. But it made an exception for Charlie Sheen. Another WIN? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8359132/twitter-fast-tracked-charlie-sheen-account.html 10 comments technology
- Twitter says you can lose verified status for bad behavior — even if it’s off Twitter. Twitter wants to police its users both on and off the service. https://www.recode.net/2017/11/18/16671990/twitter-verification-policy-guidelines-police-offline-behavior 45 comments technology
- "we show that a third of the users who can be verified to have accounts on both Twitter,[...] and Flickr,[...] can be re-identified in the anonymous Twitter graph with only a 12% error rate." [PDF] http://eprintweb.org/s/article/cs/0903.3276 9 comments compsci