Not just the famous, now anyone can get a verified Twitter account

Social networking giant Twitter has relaxed its criteria regarding verified accounts. According to the microblogging site's official help centre page, now almost anyone can apply for a veried Twitter account

Social networking giant Twitter has relaxed its criteria regarding verified accounts. According to the microblogging site's official help centre page, now almost anyone can apply for a veried Twitter account.

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For getting verified on Twitter, a user's account must contain a verified phone number, confirmed email address, user bio, profile photo, header photo, birthday, which as Twitter's help centre page explains is meant for accounts that are not company, brand, or organization accounts, a website and tweets set as public in Tweet privacy settings.

Up until now, Twitter would only verify accounts of public figures like celebrities, politicians among others. But, now if sources are to be believed, users can expect to have the coveted blue tick next to their Twitter handle soon by simply filling up a form.

Last week, Twitter announced that it has increased its animated GIF (graphics interchange format) size limit from 5MB to 15MB if uploaded on the web from a desktop computer. However, the 5MB photo limit stays the same, along with the GIF limit, for mobile uploads on Twitter.

The update has not made its way to TweetDeck which remains perennially behind the times when it comes to Twitter engineering improvements, a major tech website reported. (Read more)

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