Twitter starts accepting verification requests after briefly halting the process 

Twitter had reopened its verification portal five years after shutting the process in 2017. Users can now fill up the application form to get a blue badge.

Twitter has reopened its verification request portal days after halting the process briefly. This means that users can submit verification request all over again. The micro-blogging had halted the verification process weeks after launching due to an avalanche of requests. Twitter had reopened its verification portal five years after shutting the process. Twitter had halted the verification process on May 29 but reopened the portal four days later. Announcing the same, Twitter posted from its official account, “Requests are open! Sorry about that pause now you can get back to your quest for a blue badge.” Some users are yet to get the verification request form on their app. Twitter had earlier said that it would be rolled out to users gradually. Twitter had stopped verifying profiles in 2017 after it received severe backlash for verifying the account of a white supremacist. But now Twitter is back with a new set of guidelines and is particular about who it will verify and how the process will be carried out. Twitter had revealed in a blog that it would take the help of technology as well as a human view to verify the accounts of users.