Last month I dedicated the entire column to the Mastodon federated social network, which is seeing a massive influx of new users looking for an alternative to Twitter. As part of all that, I looked at how you could verify your identity without paying either £8 (Android) or £11 (for iPhone users) for the privilege, using the <a rel="me" href="Mastodon address">text</a> web or blog code insertion method.
But what if you wanted to verify that the Mastodon account is actually being operated by the same person as a Twitter account? The simple solution is to point to your Twitter profile in the Mastodon account profile meta section and include a clear link to your Mastodon account in your Twitter profile. While this works, and I do it myself, it does rely on people clicking through to check.
I’m a great believer in visuals when it comes to such things, hence the previous importance of blue ticks on Twitter (ticks that now have little value). You need to click on the tickmark to see if it’s a “legacy” one (and Twitter then says the account may not be “notable” anyway) or a Twitter Blue one, which is “verified” apparently simply by
