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by Nicholas Aaron Khoo, Singapore

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You can now verify who you are following on Twitter

Jun 12, 2009 10:52

At least for the celebrities, musicians, athletes, actors, public officials and public agencies you are following.

Twitter just launched its verified accounts program and one glance at the terms of service tells this geek a few things.

It does not look like a paid program, yet.

It's meant to target only the specific problem of identity theft on Twitter.

While it verifies who owns the account, it does not verify who is twittering on that account (Obama could be using his teleprompter to tweet).

It is not rolled out to businesses, yet.

Here's how the logo looks like:

While this should be a welcomed move, I, for one, am surprised that Twitter did not use this as one of its main revenue generators, like some of the gaming platform providers and forums that I know. Maybe they have some issues to iron out still.

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About Nicholas Aaron Khoo

Nicknamed "Gadget Boy" by friends at age 18 because he used to scribble Grafitti on a PalmPilot faster than most would type, Nicholas Aaron Khoo is web developer turned technopreneur and Singapore tech blogger who also pretends to do strategic advisory for tech startups and 'un'Fortune 500s (when he's not pretending to be the gadget-loaded Batman). A digital nomad, his tech interests range from gadgets, games, tech trends, social media, security, and just about anything that runs on 1s and 0s. See his industry affiliations here.
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