A blue tick on Twitter is reserved for celebrities, politicians and sports stars, but it could be available to the masses in just two years.

Twitter put verification on hold after the site received a huge public backlash when the organiser of the Charlottesville rally, Jason Kessler, received a tick.

The Unite the Right rally, organised by Kessler's alt-right group, resulted in the killing of a protester by a neo-nazi fanatic in August 2017.

Twitter is reinventing the feature and hopes to recapture public faith when it re-launches in time for the 2020 US presidential election.

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Twitter is reinventing the verification feature and hopes to recapture public faith when it re-launches in time for the 2020 US presidential election. Twitter put verification on hold after Jason Kessler, the organiser of the Charlottesville rally, received a tick

Jack Dorsey, CEO of the San Franciso based social media firm, made the announcement via a Periscope live stream.

According to Dorsey, the problem stems from confusion as to what the verification tick actually means.

Twitter claims that when the blue tick was first dreamed up, it was meant to provide clarity between real people and parody accounts.

Product director David Gasca, who was given the job of reworking the process, said: 'In user research, when you ask people what do you think when you see the check-mark, they think of it as credibility.

'Like, Twitter stands behind this person … Twitter believes what they're saying is something great and authentic, which is not at all what we mean by the check-mark. So it creates a lot of confusion.'

Twitter intends to open verification up to all users of the site who are able to prove that facts about themselves are true.

During the Periscope broadcast, both Dorsey and Mrmention that the feature should be launched in time for the US election in two years time.

Candidates will be verified with the new system, which Twitter hopes will bring credibility back to the feature.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (pictured) did a live stream with Twitter product director David Gasca and spoke about how the feature will be redesigned to add context to a persons statement (stock image)

Twitter claims that when the blue verification tick was first dreamed up, it was meant to provide clarity between real people and bots or parody accounts

HOW DOES TWITTER TAKE ACTION AGAINST OFFENDING ACCOUNTS? Twitter can go after offending accounts from the tweet-level, direct message-level and account-level, according to the company's website. The company said it will take action against accounts when their behavior violates 'Twitter Rules' or it may be in response to a 'valid and properly scoped' request from an 'authorized entity in a given country'. Twitter may instruct a user to delete a tweet that violates the site's terms, hide a tweet as it 'awaits its deletion' or it may even make a tweet 'less visible' on the site by limiting how often it appears in search results, replies or timelines. Twitter takes a variety of steps to prevent offending accounts from using the site. In the case of its latest purge, Twitter asked suspicious accounts to verify their phone number The company can also stop users from direct messaging another user by removing the conversation from the user who reported the incidents' inbox. If a certain accounts violates Twitter's policies, the company can make certain media unavailable, place an account in read-only mode, by removing their ability to post tweets, retweet, or like content 'until calmer heads prevail'. Twitter may also ask a user to verify account ownership, typically by requesting they verify an email or phone number linked to the account. In extreme scenarios, Twitter may permanently suspend an account from global view, or the violator will not be allowed to create a new account. Advertisement

Choosing a US election as the launchpad for the feature will have symbolic meaning for many.

During the 2016 election, it has since emerged, more than 1.4 million Twitter users unwittingly interacted with Russian propaganda.

The social media giant reached out to users after it found they had communicated with accounts associated with 'a Russian government-linked known as the Internet Research Agency.'



During the video live stream, the duo did not offer up and details as to how the new process will work.

Mr Gasca said that the company will aim to 'increase context', so users can better understand the message behind user accounts and .