Twitter Verified Accounts, CYA or the Beginning of a New Directory?

By Marc Handelman on June 8th, 2009

Twitter Spam

News, of the Twitter Two-Step, a dance evidenced by scrambling/crabbing in a reactive move (as well as surprisingly long-time-coming) to a new suit filed by Saint Louis Cardinals Team Manager Tony La Russa. Public utterances have noted an intention to provision ostensibly ‘verified accounts’. Is this the incept of a new naming directory? More information from Ben Parr’s superbly crafted post at Mashable! appears after the jump.

From the original Mashable! post by Ben Parr: “Twitter to Launch Verified Accounts”
“It looks like a lawsuit was the final push Twitter (Twitter reviews) needed to announce a verification program to thwart celebrity impersonators on Twitter…” “This week, Twitter has been dealing with a lawsuit from St. Louis
Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa. The lawsuit stemmed over an individual impersonating La Russa on Twitter. There has been no systematic way for Twitter to verify that a celebrity tweeter was real. Until now, that is. Twitter has just announced a verified accounts beta program to make sure there are no more lawsuits of this nature…”