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Twitter Pauses โ€œOfficialโ€ Labels On Select Accounts

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Twitter on Thursday announced that it is not putting the โ€œOfficialโ€ label on the accounts, even though it is still going after impersonation and deception.

Washington:  Twitter on Thursday announced that it is not putting the โ€œOfficialโ€ label on the accounts, even though it is still going after impersonation and deception.

A tweet from the โ€˜Twitter Supportโ€™ account read, โ€œWeโ€™re not currently putting an โ€œOfficialโ€ label on accounts but we are aggressively going after impersonation and deception.โ€

Twitterโ€™s executive Esther Crawford also informed why the โ€œOfficialโ€ label is being used.

โ€œA lot of folks have asked about how youโ€™ll be able to distinguish between @TwitterBlue subscribers with blue checkmarks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why weโ€™re introducing the โ€œOfficialโ€ label to select accounts when we launch,โ€ she tweeted.

Earlier, Twitter started labelling Indian government handles and Indian media as โ€œofficialโ€ ahead of the roll-out of blue tick subscriptions across the country.

In the Twitter handles of various Indian government organizations, the โ€œofficialโ€ label was noticed. For example, Prime Ministerโ€™s Office, Prime Minister Narendra Modiโ€™s official Twitter account, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singhโ€™s Twitter account also have the โ€œofficial labelโ€.

This follows Twitterโ€™s decision to roll out a second verification label to limit confusion between legitimate accounts and those that pay for their blue ticks.

Twitterโ€™s executive Esther Crawford said verified accounts will now come with an โ€œOfficialโ€ label beneath their username, complete with a grey verification checkmark, New York Post reported.

โ€œNot all previously verified accounts will get the โ€˜Officialโ€™ label and the label is not available for purchase,โ€ New York Post quoted Crawford as saying.

Official pages will be designated for โ€œgovernment accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers, and some public figures,โ€ she added.

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Since completing the Twitter deal, the wealthiest man on the planet has made a flurry of decisions impacting the working of the social media giant that has millions of daily active users.

A Reuters report said Elon Muskโ€™s net worth has dropped below USD 200 billion as investors dumped Teslaโ€™s shares on fears that the top executive and largest shareholder of the worldโ€™s most valuable electric-vehicle maker is more preoccupied with Twitter.

So far this year, data showed that Tesla shares have declined over 50 per cent.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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