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How to get your Twitter account verified
Twitter was the first platform to introduce account verification, starting in 2009 and currently has close to 187,000 verified accounts. The @CDCgov was one of the first Twitter accounts to be verified in order to help citizens find authentic and accurate public health information straight from the source. Among the other first accounts to be verified include @NASAArmstrong, @KimKardashian, @Oprah, @MilwaukeePolice, @SF311, and @TonyHawk.
The application process started rolling out from July 19, 2016 and be available globally. People can learn more about the application process in the Twitter Help Center.
Previously, Twitter had allowed users to apply for verification, but pulled the feature years back, presumably due to the number of new and otherwise non-worthy (spam, parody, etc.) accounts seeking verification. Since then, Twitter has manually verified all accounts, a process done behind the scenes, and without the ability for users to request it.
Currently, only 0.06 percent of the company’s 310 million monthly users are verified, according to a Twitter representative.