Twitter is testing a new tag to emphasize phone number-verified accounts.

Aside from Elon Musk's bot-baiting, Twitter has received several requests for modifications to how it recognizes accounts and what can be done to highlight which ones are more authentic than others. A Twitter label that would identify users with a confirmed phone number has now been developed by developer Jane Manchun Wong. She also mentioned a test feature that shows the number of times tweets have been viewed, which some users currently have access to for their own tweets under the heading "analytics." She said that it's not clear if this would be available to everyone or just the author.

One technique to show that an account was made with more care than the simplest macro is to link it to a number. This number might also be used to filter out which tweets display most prominently or pass through the different degrees of quality filters. Additionally, Twitter lets users link the same phone number to up to ten distinct accounts, and programmers may tag automated accounts to make it clear that there isn't a real person posting anything.

A confirmed phone number or email address must already be linked to validated "blue check" accounts. When discussing plans to allow verification for everyone, then-CEO Jack Dorsey proposed letting users verify information about themselves, which may have been akin to how businesses like Tinder and Airbnb utilize phone numbers as part of their account verification procedures.

Securing such information becomes a concern when users are encouraged to link their phone numbers to their accounts and show the status. Twitter revealed the specifics of an incident that gave an attacker access to 5.4 million user names linked to specific phone numbers and email addresses on August 5th. According to the business, the privacy hole was introduced in a June 2021 update, wasn't discovered by Twitter until January, and Twitter didn't learn the information had been taken until July, when rumors about someone trying to sell the database started to spread in the media. (via: theverge)