Calacanis: Twitter will eventually offer verified accounts to anyone using their real name

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by Sindy Cator on August 1, 2016 at 5:55 pm

Two weeks ago, Twitter opened up a feature that allowed anyone to apply for account verification. If noted entrepreneur, venture capitalist and blogger Jason Calacanis is to believed, this is simply “phase one” of a process that should see all Twitter accounts (using a real name) verified. In a segment on last night’s TWiT (This Week in Tech), host Leo Laporte and guests Calacanis and tech journalist Mike Elgan discussed the possibility of Twitter switching to a real name policy to end hate speech, trolling and otherwise unsavory behavior. The move, is one Facebook has had some success with and…