The microblogging Behemoth Twitter, this morning resumed the verification process again for the users. The company paused it a few days back when it got a ton of requests for verification. However, through a tweet, Twitter has confirmed that it is resuming its verification process under the new guidelines. Once, a user’s profile is verified, he/she gets a ‘Blue Badge‘ on his/her profile marking that person as authentic.
What happens to users who had already submitted a request?
In the period when the verification process requests were paused, Twitter said that it was reviewing the already submitted requests. The company didn’t pause the process for a long period this time. Twitter announced that it is temporarily stopping verification requests on May 29 and has resumed it on June 2.
But this is not all that’s going on with Twitter at the moment. In India, legal action against the company has been taken recently. The micro-blogging platform has been asked to comply with the new IT rules of the government within 3 weeks as per the Delhi High court’s order.
Twitter has failed to comply with the new rules and regulations of the IT order completely. Even after getting three months, like all the other companies which have already complied with the order, Twitter wants more time to do so.
And above this, the National Commission for protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has further asked the central government to stop allowing children from accessing the application. For the unaware, the new IT rules seek for the social media platforms to appoint three officers who will oversee all the grievances and complaints of the users and the government.
The grievance officer that Twitter has mentioned on the website is a United States citizen. The rules make it mandatory for the company to appoint officers who are local Indians. Since the new IT rules weren’t put on stay, Twitter will have to comply with the order just like every other social media company.
The new rules for the IT company only affect companies/platforms which have more than 5,000,000 users in the country. All we can do is wait for Twitter’s reaction to this order because all they can do is follow the orders.