Twitter will distinguish fake and real accounts with identity-based verification

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has generated tremendous interest and demand for the popular micro-blogging platform. Shortly after that, however, the platform began to diverge from its old identity and was eventually rebranded as “X” instead of the famous “Twitter bird”. However, X is also working on new features. The most prominent among these is identity-based authentication.

Twitter/X gets authentication based on authentication

App researcher Nima Owji spotted a new tag that appears when you click a user’s blue checkmark: “This account has been authenticated.” While Twitter/X has not yet confirmed that it has launched an identity-based verification method, findings from Twitter’s codes show that the platform has been working on this issue since at least March.

Identity-based verification service can be very useful especially in understanding fake and real account. On the other hand, it seems that this feature will not be required, users will be able to use identity-based authentication if they wish.

On the other hand, the authentication feature is actually something that has been on the agenda since earlier this year. According to information obtained in previous months, Twitter will not perform the authentication process itself, instead users will be authenticated by a third-party service. As it is known, Twitter uses a third-party financial services company called Blue and Stripe for payment transactions.