Twitter is unable to fix the current account documentation process

Twitter announced today with tweets released by Kayvon Beykpour, the product manager, that he is unable to repair the current account authentication process, which provides a blue reference to public figures, despite continued recognition by Twitter of transparency and a clear process Steps on the documentation of accounts and get a blue mark.

A combination of unspecified accounts, including world leaders, celebrities, sportsmen, business leaders, and journalists with ordinary people, received the blue mark, and the company says Authentication is primarily intended to validate the account. Authentication, but easy to have no specific system or clear reason to merge two.

Jack Dorsey, CEO of the company, spoke in March of a new approach to documentation that would allow any user to authenticate and obtain the blue mark in a scalable way without any interference or bias of Twitter.

Kayvon Beykpour explains that his team has temporarily stopped reforming and reactivating the authentication process, which is not a top priority for the platform, but rather the integrity of the platform. elections and not to deceive the next mid-term elections in the United States. November and political protests elsewhere in the world. "This will help us move faster on what we consider to be the most important, and we plan to address the issue of documentation after we have progressed, this could happen in four weeks, although the timing may change". He said.

The company says that it will continue to grant the blue mark for authentication on an ad hoc basis, and the site was announced in November of

Verification was intended to authenticate the identity and voice, but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance.We acknowledge that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it. – November 9, 2017

Find a way to deal with the confusion over what the blue mark means, while still giving it a number of accounts when they believe that they are serving the public conversation and are in line with the policy of

This led to the emergence of a series of objections because the process is still opaque and contrary to what it means.Kayvon Beykpour explained in an e -mail sent to the Twitter team that he did not think that Twitter was currently able to solve this problem without compromising the priorities "We are already doing a lot of things, and by focusing on it, we will reduce our speed and reduce the quality of the most important areas such as the integrity of the elections ", did he declare.

The existence of a blue authentication tag allows an account to provide credibility and proof of the account. Some other social networking sites such as Facebook provide such a blue mark, along with many internet users are turning to the official label owners and honest information, in the presence of many fake sites and fake news that are published.