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Twitter bots and memorialized users will become ‘new account types’ in 2021



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After a period of public feedback, Twitter adjusted some its plans for a new verification process, set to roll out next year. The company suspended public verification applications in 2017 and since appears to have rethought a few aspects of what information the platform should signal to its users, blue checks and beyond.
One big verification-adjacent change around the corner: Twitter plans to add a way of distinguishing bots and other automated accounts.
“… It can be confusing to people if it’s not clear that these accounts are automated,” the company wrote in a blog post. “In 2021, we’re planning to …

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