Twitter says it doesn’t ‘have the bandwidth’ to fix verification right now

The Verge ---------- Twitter doesn’t presently “have the bandwidth” to overhaul its verification system, the company’s new head of product announced Tuesday. This comes despite Twitter’s continued acknowledgement that it must bring transparency and a clear process to verification and the blue checkmark, which has been stamped on accounts belonging to an erratic mix of world leaders, celebrities, athletes, business executives, journalists, and also alt-right nationalists. The company maintains that verification is fundamentally intended to confirm an account’s authenticity — not signal any sort of endorsement. But a lack of any real rhyme or reason to the verification system has made it easy to conflate the two. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.