Twitter removes blue verified badge from Vice President Venkaiah Naidu's personal account
Although, the official handle of the Vice President of India @VPSecretariat continues to have the blue badge.
FollowTwitter on Saturday removed the blue badge or tick from the personal Twitter handle of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, @MVenkaiahNaidu. However, the official handle of the Vice President of India, @VPSecretariat, which has 9.3 lakh followers, continues to have the blue tick. Venkaiah Naidu's personal Twitter handle has over 13 lakh followers.
"Twitter has withdrawn blue verified badge from the personal handle of vice president of India, M Venkaiah Naidu," news agency ANI quoted the vice president's office as saying.
Naidu's personal account, the last tweet from which was posted on July 23, 2020, has 1.3 million followers. The vice president of India's account, on the other hand, has more than 931,000 followers.
According to Twitter, the blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. To receive the blue badge, your account must be authentic, notable, and active.
It aims to encourage and maintain trust between users on the platform by confirming the identity of an account with Twitter in order to be verified.
As per Twitter, verification is part of the social media platforms' commitment to serve the public conversation by informing people of the authenticity of accounts with considering the public interest.
The six types of notable accounts that Twitter currently verifies include Government Companies, brands and non-profit organisation, News organizations and journalists, Entertainment, Sports and esports, activists, organisers, and other influential individuals.
Twitter also removed blue verification tick from the accounts of various Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), including its joint secretaries Krishna Gopal and Arun Kumar. However, the official handle of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat continues to be verified. Other RSS leaders to lose the verification badge are former general secretary Suresh "Bhaiyyaji" Joshi, former joint general secretary Suresh Soni and the current Sampark Pramukh Aniruddha Deshpande.
The blue verified badge was removed from the Vice President of India's personal Twitter handle over inactivity, although several twitterers have put screenshots of handles that continue to have blue tick despite being inactive for over a year. "The personal account of Venkaiah Naidu was inactive for six months and the blue badge has gone," said an official from Vice President.
Twitter states that it may remove the blue verified badge and verified status of a Twitter account at any time and without notice if an account changes its username (@handle) or an account becomes inactive or incomplete or if the owner of the account is no longer for which position they were initially verified and do not otherwise meet our criteria for verification since leaving such position.
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