Twitter, which is often at the center of criticism because of bots, is working on a feature that will make it easier to separate bots. With this feature, verified phone numbers will now be added to Twitter.
Microblogging site, one of the most popular social media platforms twittercontinues its fight against bots for a long time. Especially when Elon Musk decided to buy the platform and then gave up, he said “I was deceived” and complained that there were too many bots on the platform.
A new step from the Twitter front, separating bot accounts will present a new way to users. According to reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter will roll out the “verified phone number” hashtag.
Blue click is not enough, verified number is also needed
To put it simply, users who have verified their phone number gray on Twitter profiles a colorful “phone number verified” tag will appear. This tag, which will be located in the bio, just above the followers and followed information, will be gray colored.
Through this hashtag, Twitter aims to enable people to verify their phone numbers and emails, making their accounts both safer and more authentic. of course not all bots are bad, so it is stated that a label will also come for bots accounts. In addition, information such as a verified phone number makes it easy to both protect accounts and retrieve stolen accounts.
On the other hand, giving the phone number means risking the phone number in a sense. more recently 5.4 million Twitter users Their names, phone numbers and email addresses were leaked by a hacker. In 2020, verification blue ticks were used by scammers to hack Bitcoin.
When will the new feature be available, only for the account owner or for all users? phone number verified see it is not yet known. Although it is currently possible to find whether the phone numbers in the accounts are verified or not, in the analysis tab, there will be no need for such a process thanks to the new feature.