Twitter removes blue badge from Vice President Venkaiah Naidu's personal account

Twitter on Saturday removed the blue badge from the personal handle of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu MVenkaiahNaidu Although the official handle of the Vice President VPSecretariat continues to have the blue badgeAccording to Twitter the blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic To receive the blue badge your account must be authentic notable and active It aims to encourage and maintain trust between users on the platform by confirming the identity of an account with Twitter in order to be verifiedAs per Twitter verification is part of the social media platforms commitment to serve the public conversation by informing people of the authenticity of accounts with considering the public interestTo be verified an account must be notable authentic and active The six types of notable accounts that Twitter currently verifies include Government Companies brands and nonprofit organisation News organizations and journalists Entertainment Sports and esports activists organisers and other influential individualsTwitter states that it may remove the blue verified badge and verified status of an account at any time and without notice if an account changes its username or an account becomes inactive or incomplete or 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 positionAlso Read Twitter reopens blue badge verification after a brief pauseTwitter may also remove the blue verified badge from accounts that are found to be in severe or repeated violation of the Twitter Rules including impersonation or intentionally misleading people on Twitter by changing your display name or bio violations that result in immediate account suspension or repeated violations in Tweets including but not limited to hateful conduct policy abusive behavior glorification of violence policy civic integrity policy private information policy or platform manipulation and spam policyThe blue verified badge was removed from the Vice Presidents personal Twitter handle over inactivity although several twitterati have put screenshots of handles that continue to have blue tick despite being inactive for over a yearThe personal account of Venkaiah Naidu was inactive for six months and the blue badge has gone said an official from Vice Presidentrsquos officeMeanwhile BJP Mumbai spokesperson Suresh Nakhua questioned Twitter for removing the blue badge from the Vice Presidents Twitter handle and termed it an assault on the Constitution of IndiaWhy did Twitter TwitterIndia remove Blue tick from the handle of Vice President of India Shri MVenkaiahNaidu ji This is assault of Constitution of India tweeted NakhuaIn an ongoing tussle between Twitter and the India Government on complying with the new IT laws the Ministry of Electronics and IT MeitY had asked the microblogging company to stop beating around the bush and comply with the laws of the landIn a statement on Thursday MeitY asserted that India had a glorious tradition of free speech and democratic practices and Twitters statements were an attempt to dictate its terms to the worlds largest democracyOn Monday the Delhi high court had said that Twitter has to comply with the new Information Technology Rules for digital media if they have not been stayed Justice Rekha Palli issued notices to the Centre and social media platform Twitter seeking their stand on a plea by a lawyer Amit Acharya claiming noncompliance of the rules by itWhile Twitter claimed before the court that it has complied with the rules and appointed a resident grievance officer the central government disputed the claimThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever