Twitter Comes with New Experiment

Twitter has received numerous requests for changes to how it recognises accounts and what can be done to highlight which ones are more authentic than others and need to be identified.

Linking an account to a number can demonstrate that it was created with greater care than the simplest macro. This number can also filter out which tweets appear most prominently or pass through the various levels of quality filters.

The same phone number can be linked to up to ten different Twitter accounts, and programmers can tag automated accounts to indicate that not everything being posted is being done by a real person.

When users are encouraged to link their phone numbers to their accounts and display the status, security of that information becomes a concern. On August 5th, Twitter provided details about an incident that gave an attacker access to 5.4 million account names associated with particular phone numbers and email addresses.