{"id":1865,"date":"2011-03-08T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:35","slug":"a-question-of-authority-how-does-twitter-verify-celebrity-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/08\/a-question-of-authority-how-does-twitter-verify-celebrity-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question of Authority: How Does Twitter Verify [Celebrity] Accounts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2011\/03\/07\/how-does-twitter-verify-celebrity-accounts\/\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/OB-MX305_spesom_DV_20110307132723.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Twitter has 175 million users and counting and only select, mostly  high-profile people are granted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153verified\u00e2\u20ac\u009d status. <strong>How are verified  users vetted<\/strong>? Twitter refused to explain the process, saying via e-mail,  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we continue to very selectively verify accounts most at risk for  impersonation on a one-off and highly irregular basis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2011\/03\/07\/how-does-twitter-verify-celebrity-accounts\/\">How Does Twitter Verify Celebrity Accounts? &#8211; Speakeasy &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Twitter has 175 million users and counting and only select, mostly high-profile people are granted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153verified\u00e2\u20ac\u009d status. How are verified users vetted? Twitter refused to explain the process, saying via e-mail, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we continue to very selectively verify accounts most at risk for impersonation on a one-off and highly irregular basis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &nbsp; How Does Twitter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/08\/a-question-of-authority-how-does-twitter-verify-celebrity-accounts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Question of Authority: How Does Twitter Verify [Celebrity] Accounts?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[285,286],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-authority","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10193,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/10193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}