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# Twitter pauses verifications (again) after giving fake accounts blue checks
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/twitter-pauses-verifications-again-after-giving-fake-accounts-blue-checks/
- Published: 2021-08-16T13:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-16T13:13:45.000Z
- Description: Twitter has stopped taking applications for official verification of accounts yet again, The pause in granting the much-coveted ‘blue checks’ came after Twitter admitted that some fake accounts had been. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2021/08/twitter-pauses-verifications-again-aft
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Social Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:48

Twitter has stopped taking applications for official verification of accounts yet again,

The pause in granting the much-coveted ‘blue checks’ came after Twitter admitted that some fake accounts had been granted verification.

Twitter has paused its verification program back in 2017 after backlash over granting a blue check to one of the organizers behind the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.

It reopened the program earlier this year and then paused it a week later due to overwhelming demand. It opened it a few weeks later only to close it now again.

**Bruce Houghton* is Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/) and [MusicThinkTank](http://www.musicthinktank.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and serves as a Senior Advisor to [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com) which acquired both publications in 2019\. He is the Founder and President of the[ Skyline Artists Agency](https://skylineonline.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and a professor for the [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com).*