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Who Are Twitter’s Verified Users?
A deep dive into more than 100,000 of the social media giant’s top users shows that journalists and sports figures dominate the platform.
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If you spend a fair bit of time on Twitter, you can’t have failed to stumble across users who have a blue tickmark next to their names. These are the Verified Users, and you’re about to learn a lot more about them. Pour a cup of tea, strap in, and let’s go…
There are around 150k verified Twitter accounts in total, and according to Twitter, they are
Highly sought users in music, acting, fashion, government, politics, religion, journalism, media, sports, business and other key interest areas.
A pretty diverse bunch, then.
Twitter currently has around 300m active users, which means that the accounts emblazoned with the coveted Verified badge is a rather exclusive club. Hell, they aren’t even the 1% — they are the 0.05%.
