Twitter turned off its verification program last summer, and since then it has blessed only a handful of Very Important Person’s accounts with its “verified” badge.
But! Where there’s a will, there’s a way. At least, if you work for
Twitter fan Howard Stern, who had Biz Stone on his show this morning.
Stern and his crew seem obsessed with verification, and at the end of a 45-minute interview, Stern convinced Stone to bless one of his pals, too.
Ronnie the Limo Driver
will get his badge today, Stone said. As of 4:30 ET, that hasn’t
happened, but then again the Twitter team has a lot on its plate right
now.
If you do have the time to spare, by the way, the Stern interview is
quite good: Stone goes over the basics of Twitter’s history, as well as
delivering a good anecdote about not selling the company to Facebook.
But unlike the other press appearances Stone has made, this one goes
away from the standard talking points, and Stern gets him to go into his
personal history, too. It’s both gossipy and humanizing–the kind of
stuff that people love to hear from famous people, but very seldom get.
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