Now is your time to get your Twitter account verified, as twitter starts accepting requests

As Apple will be showcasing it's new iPhone 13 why not go and get your Twitter account verified in the meantime?. 

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The news: after temporarily halting new applications for its revamped verification process last month, Twitter announced it’s “back to rolling out access to request a blue badge.” The company said it put a pause on new applications in order to improve “the application flow and review process.” That may have something to do with the fake accounts that the company accidentally verified in July, but maybe Twitter has now learnt from its mistakes.

Official tweet from Twitter's verified twitter handle

The company relaunched its troubled verification program in August this year, after it was put on ice in 2017. Twitter’s criteria for verification is that an account must be “authentic, notable, and active,” but the public perception of verification has always been a little more ambiguous, stirring up controversy around the program.

Earlier, there were numerous number of cases about genuinely notable and influential figures going unverified,