Twitter is the social media site that pioneered account verification. It mainly launched this function to ascertain the authenticity of user accounts that are likely to be subject to parody and fake user accounts that try to trick other users into believing they are real ones.

Verified Twitter accounts have a blue badge with a white check mark inside and it is positioned right next to the username.

When Twitter launched the account verification functionality in 2009, only user accounts that are highly of public interest were verifiable and accounts were verified on requests. But a few years down the road, Twitter put an end to verifying accounts on user request and started doing it behind the scene based on in-house discretion. There were rumours that the former verification process was put to an end because of increasing numbers of new and ‘non-worthy (spam, parody, etc.) accounts’ requesting verification.

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