Want to follow Bud Light on Twitter to see hundreds of pictures of carefully arranged beer bottles? Then you'll need to convince the microblogging service that you're over the legal drinking age in your home country. As outlined on its blog, Twitter has now introduced an age-screening system that it says will help alcohol brands "safely grow their of-age network."
Users of Twitter.com and its iOS and Android apps trying to follow specific brands — the first partners include Jim Beam, Knob Creek, and Bacardi — will receive a direct message that directs them to an age gate and gives them 24 hours to provide the relevant information. As they fill in their birthdays, Twitter cross-checks them against national drinking age limits, and...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/25/5146124/twitter-age-gate-checks-legal-drinking-age-before-follow
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