Twitter (Twitter reviews) celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Oprah now carry the button. Those wishing to apply for verified status can visit the verified accounts help page, which explains:

With this feature, you can easily see which accounts we know are ‘real’ and authentic. That means we’ve been in contact with the person or entity the account is representing and verified that it is approved. (This does not mean we have verified who, exactly, is writing the tweets.)

This also does not mean that accounts without the ‘Verified Account’ badge are fake. The vast majority of accounts on the system are not impersonators, and we don’t have the ability to check 100% of them. For now, we’ve only verified a handful of accounts to help with cases of mistaken identity or impersonation.

The feature has been a long time coming, and many celebrities will jump on the opportunity to prove their legitimacy. It’ll also solve the entrenched problem of celebrity impersonations, which are confusing for users and unwelcome by those being impersonated. Businesses, however, will have to wait: the feature has not been rolled out to corporate entities yet.

Who is Verified on Twitter? Let Us Know

Who is verified and who is not, you ask? At first glance it would appear that only celebrities and those with large followings are included – please do post the names of verified users in the comments and we’ll compile a collaborative list.

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- Oussama

In my opinion, everything has advantages and consequences. Same for using Twitter, it has a positive and a negative influence on our creativity.

Positivies:
• The 140 character limit is a creativity challenge for every blogger, it will definitely help you free up your writing style enormously. If you’re creative enough the character limit will proove it and it won’t hinder your work at all.
• Using Twitter the good way will open your eyes to new ideas as people consider it as a network of interesting conversations, and this will definitely improve your creative work.
• Even if you’re not talking, you can just listen to others and learn new things and instantly connect to tutorials and articles and stuff. The more you learn the more you improve your creativity.
• Twitter is a great place to ask questions and get feedback on your ideas.

Negatives:
• You learn a lot but you quickly forget, you have no time to implement.
• It might take time out of your day that could be spent somewhere else more creatively.
• Twitter makes you produce much content, which means you’re spending much time on the quantity not the quality.

Finally I’d like to hear from you on this topic and vote on the poll below
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Thanks for you attention.
- Oussama

It’s funny but true when this history professor says that “there are some topics we discuss that need more information” than Twitter’s 140 character limit allows. It’s also nice to hear a teacher talk about technology and say, “it’s going to be messy but that doesn’t mean bad.” Welcome to the social web, where that’s a great attitude.

Actually, I was one of these people who voted for blog readers for some reasons I’ll list below:

• Promotion on Twitter do not work.
As it’s a social network I believe that if you try to redirect Twitter users to your blog you will not succeed, because if you keep advertising your website on Twitter you’re some how annoying your followers as social networks were meant to be used as an information and a fun chat service for friends to share what they are doing or what on their mind, not spamming products and services every minutes.

• Less potential of earning money.
Even if you have a million followers, I think there is less potential of earning money – compared to a blog. You can only put some ads on your Twitter Page which means you’re disturbing your followers, or do some marketing stuff which lots of people didn’t succeed in it.

• Blog readers = Lots of potential.
With feed subscribers, there’s a much higher chance they actually are interested in your content and will be back to read future posts.

The point from all this, is to not focus all your effort on generating traffic or followers to your Twitter profile but to your blog.

Thanks for your attention
- Oussama