Instant Verification - Social Media

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Automatically verifying real people can reduce the workload for the manual verification queue. One option is to make use of a social media account. A user can be determined as a real person using a set of defined, configurable rules.

Criteria to consider for instant verification

• Email address
• Account age
• Social network
• Recent post activity

To start with, we can perform verification using Twitter accounts.

Twitter criteria for Instant verification

• Check that the Twitter email address matches the email address on the LBRY account.
• Check that the account is at least 3 months old. The threshold should be configurable.
• Check that the user has at least 50 followers. The number of followers should be configurable.
• Check that the user has at least one recent post in the last week, with at least 5 recent posts no more than 1 week apart from the other. The threshold for the first post and the duration gap between posts should be configurable.

If a Twitter user meets all of this criteria, then the user's LBRY account can be set to verified instantly.

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With Twitter implemented, we can explore getting a Facebook app approved in order to achieve these requirements.

Facebook criteria for Instant verification

• Check that the Facebook email address matches the email address on the LBRY account.
• Check that the account is at least 3 months old. If account age is not available, we can check the date of the user's first or earliest posts. The threshold should be configurable.
• Check that the user has at least 50 friends. The number of friends should be configurable.
• Check that the user has at least one recent post in the last week, with at least 5 recent posts no more than 1 week apart from the other. The threshold for the first post and the duration gap between posts should be configurable.

If a Facebook user meets all of this criteria, then the user's LBRY account can be set to verified instantly.