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Friday, March 21, 2014

No, Twitter didn’t revoke Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ‘verified’ check mark

No, Twitter didn’t revoke Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ‘verified’ check mark

By Brian Fung
March 21 at 6:18 pm

Rumors have begun circulating online that Twitter may have removed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's verification — a blue badge that appears on user accounts to indicate they've been authenticated by the service as a real person. (For the uninitiated, Twitter verification is typically reserved for celebrities and other high-profile individuals to distinguish them from fan-made or fake accounts.)

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