(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Facebook, following the lead of Twitter and Google+, is verifying user accounts and allowing for pseudonyms.

But the verification and policy change on nicknames — Facebook has previously mandated that users use their legal names — won’t be available to the general public. Instead, verified accounts are by invitation only and, for now, those invitations will go to celebrities and to users with a large number of subscribers.

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