Google Adds Real Name Verification to Google +
Google has recently released Real Name Verification for Google +. At the moment it is only open to celebrities, but they plan on rolling it out to everyone according to the announcement by Wen-Ai Yu on the Google Plus Updates Channel on YouTube (see video embedded below):
If you watch the video and then have a think about what this may mean. First of all, one of the biggest problems on Twitter, is they really do have a problem with spammers – a high percentage of followers appear to be spam accounts. With Google requiring everyone to be verified they will actually reduce spam a lot. On a more sinister note though, there is something creepy about having your social profile verified, but maybe we’ll get less trolls and flaming…
At this time I don’t think it is going to be compulsory – but if it were to be compulsory it may limit free speech – would you have wanted to speak out against Gadafi if you lived in Tripoli a few months ago with your name verified?
Brett Tabke 640 days ago
http://www.webmasterworld.comI fing G+ much more spam filled that Twitter.
G+ Spam = a dozens posts and reposts of the same article. No way to limit that and no way to filter it. My current top page has 8 posts that are duplicates from other people.
Twitter Spam : Follower acts that are spam – not an issue to me at all. I never see their tweets. The only place I find spam an issue is in #hashtag channel usage. But google won’t even let you do hashtags yet and search (I’ve heard they are good at it), of circles and feeds is still in it’s infancy.
Spam on Twitter – 140chars max from acts that are easy to unfollow.,
Spam on G+ : screen after screen of blog posts by guys you might actually one to read once a month. Extremely hard to filter.
G+ is not Facebook, or Twitter – it is Blogger.
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