Twitter To Protect Our Precious Celebrities, Roll Out "Verified Accounts"
Twitter To Protect Our Precious Celebrities, Roll Out "Verified Accounts"
Posted 06/08/2009 at 1:32pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Just last week Twitter announced that they would be introducing “verified accounts,” so as to protect the identity of celebrities.
The manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Tony La Russa, is currently suing Twitter, claiming that someone is impersonating him on their site. In response, Twitter has claimed that the lawsuit is an “unnecessary waste of judicial resources bordering on frivolous.” And, to follow this up, they suspended the account.
But, to help prevent this from happening in the future, Twitter will soon open up the beta of their verified accounts feature for a small set of public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes and other celebrities that could potentially be impersonated.
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nekollx
June 08, 2009 at 2:53pm
Considering he doesn't even pretend to be a rapper/actor and that IS his legal name, AND he's a journalist for a Tech Mag....probably not.
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jess6369
June 08, 2009 at 1:41pm
No one cares about celebritys!
they talk about celebs because they don't want to talk about their own lives cause they suck!
Vegan
June 08, 2009 at 4:08pm
I don't want people talking about their own lives on Twitter or Facebook or wherever, either. Your first mistake is thinking that I care about what you're up to.
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