Sources at Twitter indicated that the blue tick on the account had gotten removed as the personal account of the vice president had remained inactive since July last year. An official statement from the platform is awaited.
Twitter restored the blue verified badge on the personal Twitter handle of Vice-President of India M Venkaiah Naidu, hours after withdrawing it on Saturday.
Sources at Twitter indicated that the blue tick on the account had gotten removed as the personal account of the vice president had remained inactive since July last year. An official statement from the platform is awaited.
Naidu’s Twitter handle — @MVenkaiahNaidu — has 1.3 million followers. The last tweet from his account was on July 23, 2020, which shows the vice-president is not active on his personal account since then.
Naidu is, however, active from his official handle of Vice President of India — @VPSecretariat — which continues to have a blue badge. It has 931.3k followers.
The matter was questioned by BJP Mumbai spokesperson Suresh Nakhua, who took to twitter to term it an ‘assault on the Constitution of India’. “Why did @Twitter @TwitterIndia remove Blue tick from the handle of Vice President of India Shri @MVenkaiahNaidu ji? This is an assault of Constitution of India,” tweeted Nakhua.
The blue verified badge on Twitter shows that an account is authentic and for getting the badge, the particular account must be authentic, notable, and active.
According to Twitter, it may remove the blue verified badge and verified status of a Twitter account without notice if an account changes its username (@handle) or becomes inactive or incomplete. It can also happen if the owner of the account is no longer for which position they were initially verified and do not otherwise meet our criteria for verification since leaving such position.
Earlier this year in January, Twitter had said it would restart its verification program for important accounts after a gap of three years. It had then also said that the blue tick, which indicates that the user is verified, would be removed from such accounts which remained inactive for a certain period or which no longer met the requirements.
As per the new verification policy announced in January this year, Twitter introduced new categories by recognising verified status for companies, brands, media outlets, journalists, entertainment figures, and sports-related accounts. The company had in its blog post also said that it reserved the right to remove the verification or blue tick from accounts that repeatedly violated its rules and policies.
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