Twitter restores Bluetick for Vice President
Twitter has restored the blue tick on the personal handle of Vice President M venkaiah naidu hours after it was briefly dropped and said it was done due to inactivity. Today morning we reported that Vice President venkaiah naidu lost his verified blue tick on his personal account which had 1.3 Million followers. This sparked a huge outrage on social media.
According to twitter, the blue verified badge on twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. As per the conditions, the blue tick will be removed due to inactivity over a year, but several followers have put screenshots of handles that continue to have bluetick despite being inactive for more than a year. There has been an outrage regarding the same.
Top officials said that the "Government was fuming on how the social media platform removed the blue badge from the personal twitter handle of Vice President of India." Authorities contacted twitter after the blue tick was removed and as they had a word with the officials on twitter, the blue tick badge has now been restored. twitter said the account has been inactive since July 2020. It said the verified badge has now been restored. This was the last tweet made by venkaiah naidu,