Elon Musk made a lot of changes to Twitter since he took over, including rebranding it to X. More changes keep on coming, and the next one could see ID verification added to X.
X will get ID verification feature soon in order to battle impersonation
There is a specific reason why this may be happening… to prevent impersonation. Impersonation actually managed to create problems for X on a number of occasions, it even postponed some paid verification plans.
In order to battle that, X could ask you to submit a copy of your government-issued ID and snap a selfie in addition to that. A researcher, Nima Owji, shared a screenshot to prove that the feature is coming.
In the image shown above you can clearly see an ID verification popup on the desktop version of X. The steps to achieve ID verification are clearly highlighted here. X also lets you know that the entire process will take you about 5 minutes.
X plans to partner up with Au10tix
If you check out the small letter at the bottom, you’ll notice that X plans to partner up with Au10tix in order to make this happen. It is said that ID images, including biometric data, will be kept up for 30 days.
It is also highlighted that such info will be used “for the purposes of safety and security, including preventing impersonation”.
We’re not really sure when will this feature go live, but it seems to be coming. The partnership seems to be in place, and even the UI seems to be about ready to go. So, if we had to guess, we’d say that the change will happen really soon.
This is not exactly surprising, as such a change has been rumored for quite some time now. More changes are coming to the platform, of course, and chances are we’ll see quite a few of them by the end of this year.