On August 23, Twitter confirmed that it is testing the attachment of profile badges to users who have verified their accounts with their personal phone numbers, according to Techcrunch.
The feature was first discovered on August 19 by Jane Manchun Wong, an applied researcher.
Accordingly, Twitter shared that this feature was launched to "allow people to add personal information to their account profits". That will help the company partly verify that the user with the badge is a real person, not a bot.
The company also emphasized that this is one of the ways to help people find reliable information, and verification is just a part of this process.
Currently, Twitter is only testing phone number verification with the participation option setting. The company has not confirmed and released any information about the popularity of this test and which users and areas can have their badges displayed.
In recent months, the Bot on Twitter has become a hot topic as it is the reason why the $44 billion deal with Elon Musk is being suspended.
The Tesla CEO has repeatedly "argued" with the platform, claiming that the number of fake spam accounts was much higher than what Twitter claimed. This has led to an endless legal battle, which is expected to resume on October 17.
Twitter has made some improvements after the incident such as displaying verified badges for accounts that have received a lot of attention such as journalists and celebrities, labeling useful bot on the platform, government officials and state media.
It is known that these labels are applied to some limited accounts, but verified phone number badges can be applied to millions of accounts. The company has recently taken some action to stop attackers threatening to secure Twitter accounts - affecting at least 5.4 million accounts.
In particular, the social media company said it is implementing many breakthrough ideas to maintain the authenticity of platform conversations by giving people more ways to identify and express themselves on Twitter and in their profits.
Twitter is not the first platform to try this feature. Previously, dating apps like Bumble and Tinder had a voluntary photo-based verification process.
