Thread by @VictorBaissait

#thread
Ok some thought about the process for being verified on #Twitter and things for me that should be changed or modified. Some things are not really clear. Tell me what do you think of what i'm saying, would love to have your #feedback and don't hesitate to #RT

https://twitter.com/verified/status/1398359044054790153

First, what about people that could be fit in 2 or 3 categories (I'm in this case). You have to choose only one when you do the process. What if for example if you are a journalist and an activist ?

I think the verification was here at first, to prove that it's really the person and not a fake profile. So for example the profile of the PDG of Twitter France @damienviel is not verified, so you can think it's a fake account.

Let's take 2 other examples: 1st one: my father @bernardbaissait (I corun his account with him), a famous French graphic designer that has his one Wikipedia page: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_B…, his work is studied in art schools & he is featured on Google Liste "graphiste français"

His account is not huge & looking at the criteria he wouldn't be eligible! He matches the Column B but not A It's a problem: people could be wandered is it really him, a fake, a fan account? So the verification would be important for his account whether or not his account is huge

Even what's in Column A is not really clear:
"in the top .05% of active accounts located in the same geographic region"

".05%" what does it represent ? (could be great to give an estimation)
"same geographic region", ok but would be great to know how you divide the world

You ask for articles or websites or news (if you don't have a Wikipedia), made during the last 6 months (ex: article about you), you have to provide links, but can you provide as a link a picture (ex: an article about you in the press, that can't be found online)

And also if you have retired and are not enough to be on Wikipedia, you won't be able to provide articles about you from the last 6 months, but people who are going to visit your Twitter account can still be wondering if it's you or not ?

I think 6 months is a bit short

And you ask for a link with a hashtag about you and a famous hashtag that you have launched. If people tweet about, they won't always use a hashtag (like #firstnamelastname), so 2nd example: me, I had no idea when I should put in this part of the verification.

I was featured on the some podcast over the last 2 years & also on a TV show as a fake news expert. I co-run an important news website about Paul McCartney. And for someone like me would also prove that it's me. Someone who saw me can be wondering if it's really me or not.

To be fair, it's more obvious that this account is really run by me than the one by my father (as the post of the account of my father are mostly just pictures of his works). And I think if people can have doubt about an account, the verification is important for the account

I co-run an important news website about @PaulMcCartney (@Maccaclub) & I'm a journalist there. When we were called Maccablog, McCartney mentioned us in a video & thanks us for our works. Does Maccaclub have to be verified first, if I want to apply as a journalist for verification

I'm sure people will have a lot of things to add to this... I think some things should be clarified in the process