By Marc Handelman on
June 14th, 2009
In astonishing news from last week, Mike Arrington founder and co-editor of TechCrunch reports his account (and most likely many other celebrity accounts) managed to garner the ‘coveted’ Twitter Verified Badge. Apparently Twitters much vaunted verification program (of which, we initially applauded) has run off the tracks (as it were). Reports indicate no verification is actually accomplished. Ooop. That’s telling them Twitter!
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Categories: Account Management, Infosecurity
Tags: Cover your ass, Features, Michael Arrington, Mike Arrington, On the Web, Online Communities, Social network, Social Network Security, Social Networking, Spam, TechCrunch, Twitter, What Were They Thinking
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Jun 15th, 2009 at 03:42
Twitter Begins Account Verification, Without Verifying… http://bit.ly/amApK Ooop. That’s telling them Twitter!