If you’ve ever seen a Twitter account and wondered if it belonged to someone who’s running for public office, but you didn’t feel like reading their bio or Googling them, this is a great week for you.
Twitter announced on Thursday it would start rolling out special candidate labels for “eligible US general election candidates.” This is actually the return of a feature Twitter started playing with during the 2018 U.S. congressional midterms. Twitter told us back in December they would be brought back for candidates who went through a verification process.
And you’ll start to see more of them! Election Labels will appear on a rolling basis as state primary elections continue. But ☝️ they won’t be applied to candidates’ accounts that haven’t completed the verification process, or in races that are still undecided.
— TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) March 5, 2020 Read more…
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