Among Twitter’s troubles over the past few months have been the sticky issue of impersonators, highlighted by St. Louis Cardinals’ manager Tony Larussa suing Twitter.
This has prompted Twitter to launch a Twitter Verification program that authenticates accounts as “real”. After authenticating your account, you get a special badge to let the world know that you are who you say you are.
For now, unfortunately, it’s not possible to get verified unless you’re “well-known artists, athletes, actors, public officials, and public agencies”. Twitter said it may verify more accounts “but because of the cost and time required, we’re only testing this feature with a small set of folks for the time being”
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