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 acco...