No, Begging Twitter to Verify Your Account Won't Make It Happen

Relationships, not hashtag campaigns, earn the checkmark

For those who really, really want Twitter’s coveted blue "verified account" badge, it is pursued as the ultimate validation of their life’s worth. For those who already have one, it’s … meh.

Little more than a dozen pixels wide, the verified checkmark has become a rabidly sought-after digital laurel symbolizing that you’ve "made it" at whatever it is you do.

Each day, Twitter’s official (but long dormant) @Verified account is flooded with requests from content creators, musicians, aspiring actors and models pleading to have their accounts consecrated as legit.

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