How to get a verified account on Twitter in 10 steps - April 2017 Updated

How to get a verified account on Twitter in 10 steps - April 2017 Updated

How to get verified on Twitter

So how can you go about getting verified? Twitter has posted guidelines telling users the kind of requirements needed from their account, apart from which types of accounts it is likely to verify.

Here's a brief list of what you need:

1. Twitter name that matches your real name or stage name (or your company's real name if it's a corporate account)

2. A verified phone number

3. A confirmed email address (corporate accounts should use their corporate email address)

4. A detailed bio for your account

5. A real profile photo of yourself or your brand (which can be easier if you check out our tips to shoot the perfect profile picture)

6. A header photo that reflects you or your brand

7. A birthday (for accounts that are not company, brand, or organization accounts) A website link in your account that reflects you or your brand

8. Tweets set as "Public" in Twitter's privacy settings

9. A brief statement explaining your impact on your particular field, and why Twitter should verify you; a mission statement, if you will

10. A scanned copy of a government-issued ID (like a passport or driver's license)

11. Once you have updated your Twitter profile to meet all of these requirements, head to verification.twitter.com and fill out the form step by step.

Twitter will check if you meet all of the minimum requirements and ask for your mission statement. You may or may not be asked for the scanned ID in this process, but it's also unclear what security precautions Twitter is taking to make sure your scanned ID is securely locked and doesn't fall into the wrong hands. You might want to be careful with this one.