Twitter offers you a chance to get verified account, but there is a catch

Have you even looked at the Twitter handle of your favourite celeb and wondered why you can’t get a blue tick next to your handle? Well, the micro-blogging site is giving a chance to everyone to get a verified Twitter handle. Twitter made an offer on May 21 to gift ‘blue ticks’, the badge of verified accounts, to the users. For this it set just one simple condition. Twitter put out a tweet and asked users to reply to that. “reply if you want to be verified!” it said.

Sound simple, right? It isn’t. Here is the catch – you cannot reply to this tweet. Wonder why? Well, the platform has recently rolled out a feature that restricts users from replying to tweets. The feature has been made available to a few users and is yet to rolled out globally. 

Twitter said that it is currently testing the feature and starting with a small percentage globally.

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The new feature would enable the audience to like and reshare a post but they would not be able to reply to the tweets unless allowed by the user.

The new Twitter feature will also help users deal with trolls by restricting replies to select number of people. Currently, the feature has been made available to a handful of people globally but Twitter is planning to roll out the feature for all its users soon.

How will new Twitter feature work?

- When you start putting out a tweet, an option that reads “Everyone can reply” will appear. 
- Here, you will get three options - “everyone, “people you follow” and “Only people you mention”.

- Select the option to restrict the replies on your tweets. 

If you select either of “people you follow” or “Only people you mention”,  Twitter will label it and the reply icon will be lightened or grayed out so that readers can understand that they cannot reply to the tweet. Those who have the permission, can continue to reply to your tweets.