Report: Journalists Make Up a Quarter of All Verified Twitter Accounts

While journalists and media make up the largest percent of Verified Twitter accounts, they are far less prominent and popular than musicians, actors and politicians.

There are lots of happily anonymous people on the Internet. But for celebrities and other prominent public figures, it’s usually more important to establish your social media profiles actually belong to you, rather than an imposter.

Twitter’s solution to this challenge was to offer verified accounts to prominent figures.

Haje Jan Kamps, CEO of mobile camera remote technology company Triggertrap, analyzed more than 100,000 Twitter accounts and discovered that most of the verified accounts belong to journalists and sports figures.

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According to Kamps, nearly a quarter of Twitter’s verified users fit into the journalist and media category.

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