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February 16, 2012 08:07 am GMT
Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and display a preferred pseudonym instead of their birth name. Those with verified accounts will gain more prominent placement in Facebook's "People To Subscribe To" suggestions.Verified accounts are not a departure from Facebook's real name policy, as birth names will still be shown on a user's profile About page. Instead it's a way to ensure people don't subscribe to the public updates ofimpostors. It will also arm Facebook for its battle with Twitter to control the interest graph.
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Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms
Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and display a preferred pseudonym instead of their birth name. Those with verified accounts will gain more prominent placement in Facebook's "People To Subscribe To" suggestions.Verified accounts are not a departure from Facebook's real name policy, as birth names will still be shown on a user's profile About page. Instead it's a way to ensure people don't subscribe to the public updates ofimpostors. It will also arm Facebook for its battle with Twitter to control the interest graph.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/daUCseUBF8Q/
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