{"id":3902,"date":"2023-06-14T05:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/twitter-verification-shenanigans-gold-edition"},"modified":"2023-06-14T05:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:32:15","slug":"twitter-verification-shenanigans-gold-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/twitter-verification-shenanigans-gold-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter verification shenanigans: gold edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>because shades of orange are now totally real organizationsTwitter recently rolled out a new verification feature for organizations, which bestows a gold checkmark on an organization&#8217;s primary Twitter account and additionally grants the organization the ability to verify affiliated accounts, which receive both a Twitter checkmark and an organization-specific affiliate badge. As with the $8 Twitter Blue verification system, the launch of organizational verification has not been without hitches &#8212; on one occasion, a gold checkmark was bestowed upon a fake Disney Junior account, for example. More recently, an account with the handle @thisisorange and the biography &#8220;proof of #bitcoin&#8221; was granted a gold verified organization checkmark by Twitter. The sole evidence of the existence of the &#8220;organization&#8221; in question is the website linked in @thisisorange&#8217;s profile, orange.associates, which was registered just two weeks ago.the mark of legitimacy: a domain name that was registered two weeks agothis is certainly a novel use of Twitter&#8217;s verified organization featureThe orange.associates website offers the option for anyone with a Twitter account to become an affiliate of the &#8220;organization&#8221; simply by providing a Twitter handle and connecting a cryptocurrency wallet. Scrolling through the @thisisorange account&#8217;s Affiliates tab reveals that the account has racked up a massive number of affiliates, all sporting blue checkmarks and orange square affiliate badges. Almost all of these affiliates appear to be cryptocurrency\/NFT-themed accounts. According to a June 3rd, 2023 tweet from @thisisorange, the total number of affiliate accounts exceeds 25000.Although the orange.associates website is only two weeks old, the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/conspirator0.substack.com\/p\/twitter-verification-shenanigans\">Twitter verification shenanigans: gold edition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>because shades of orange are now totally real organizationsTwitter recently rolled out a new verification feature for organizations, which bestows a gold checkmark on an organization&#8217;s primary Twitter account and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,3177,834,3203,12,341,460,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}