{"id":4969,"date":"2016-07-20T03:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/20\/twitter-just-made-it-a-lot-easier-to-get-verified\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T03:33:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:33:26","slug":"twitter-just-made-it-a-lot-easier-to-get-verified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/20\/twitter-just-made-it-a-lot-easier-to-get-verified\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter just made it a lot easier to get verified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f149796%2fiphone_6_june-14\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/u764hbWR9ciIeCoDDdiZyBwAz3M=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F149796%2Fiphone_6_june-14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Twitter+just+made+it+a+lot+easier+to+get+verified&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F19%2Ftwitter-application-for-verified-accounts%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F19%2Ftwitter-application-for-verified-accounts%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It will soon be a lot easier to get that coveted blue checkmark next to your name on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The company will soon have an official way for users to request a verified account via an <a href=\"https:\/\/verification.twitter.com\/\">online application<\/a>, marking the first time Twitter has implemented a streamlined way for users to request a verified badge.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/21\/twitter-engage-app\/\">Twitter&#8217;s new Engage app makes it easier for celebs to handle their fans<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new application process is beginning to roll out to users in the U.S. now and will be available to the rest of the world in the next few days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, it doesn&#8217;t sound like the actual requirements for becoming verified are changing \u2014 just the process itself. 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The company will soon have an official way for users to request a verified account via an online application, marking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/20\/twitter-just-made-it-a-lot-easier-to-get-verified\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[832,831,783,725,16],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apps-and-software","tag-apps-software","tag-social-media","tag-tech","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}