I was going through my twitter followers and noticed some of them like @bdutt (Barkha dutt of NDTV) has a verified account. I searched through the process of getting a twitter account verified.
Why do we need to get our account verified?
Having your twitter account verified is good, but for people like me, I don’t really feel the need. I am not a celebrity or I don’t feel that somebody will use a twitter account to tweet in my name. In case of people who are known or in case of celebrities, its good to have the twitter account verified.
According to twitter, verified account is still in a beta phase and very few accounts are verified. Verified accounts are provided with a Verified badge which should be on the right side of the twitter page as you see on the image above. Its very easy to have a verified mark when you use this on your profile background. A verified account means that twitter has checked if that the profile information provided is genuine. Its good because we see lots of controversies when popular people tweet their opinions and they get into trouble like in the case of @shashitharoor. Twitter is currently only providing this verified account to individuals and not to business.
How to get your Twitter Account Verified?
You can fill up this form and submit, but its not sure that Twitter will verify every account
You can find more information on Twitter Verified account here.
