To authenticate Twitter accounts before, you will only be required to meet the eligibility criteria and then apply but currently, after meeting the eligibility criteria you will be required to make a payment.
Twitter authentication has its benefits which is more reason people want their account to be authenticated.
You may be asking how to authenticate your Twitter account. This article answers this question with the criteria required for Twitter authentication and the steps to authenticate your Twitter account.
Twitter Account Authentication Requirements
Before you can be eligible for Twitter account authentication, you must have reached the authentication requirements.
It includes:
1. Complete Profile: Your account must bear your full name with your profile picture.
2. Active The account must be active and have had an activity in the previous 30 days.
3. Security: At the time of the authentication your Twitter account must be more than 90 days old with a mobile number. This is for security purposes.
4. Not Misleading: There must be no recent changes on the account you want to authenticate, especially on your username or profile picture. Account must also be void of spam or any form of manipulation.
If you have checked your account and you met the requirements, you can go ahead to apply for your account authentication (the blue tick).
Also, note that the badges are of different types and will be awarded depending on the type of profile applied.
Blue badges are awarded to prominent individuals and subscribers, while the hold is awarded to companies and grey is awarded to accounts owned by governments.
How To Authenticate a Twitter Account
The steps to authenticate Twitter accounts are as follows:
1. Login to your Twitter account, head to the left-hand side menu, and tap on the “Settings and Privacy” option. After clicking on “Settings and privacy”, go over to the “Account Information” option and click on it.
2. Now your account will appear verified if you have verified, but if not it will show it hasn’t been verified.
3. After tapping “Request Verification”, a new screen will surface for you to start the verification request process.
4. Select the type of account you want to verify from the listed categories available for authentication.
5. There are different qualifications for each type of category selected, so you will be asked to choose from the methods displayed to confirm that your account is eligible for authentication. Any method that is shown there is dependent on the type of category you selected initially.
6. After you have chosen the method suitable for the category, you are required to confirm or prove with evidence the method you have chosen.
For example: if you selected the “News Coverage” method, you will be required to provide links to three different news organizations that referenced you within the last six months.
7. This is the final step where you have to provide the required information for identity verification. You will be required to provide an Identity Verification document for them to make sure you are not an Impersonator.
Conclusion
After providing all the required documensubmittingbmit, and waiting for a few days, the account will be reviewed by Twitter. Now, your Twitter account is ready for authentication and in a few days will be authenticated.
