is used to not only log in to your account but also mention someone on Twitter, reply to tweets, search for an account and uniquely identify a person. It also appears in Twitter profile URLs.

and so you know it's not really *the* Bill Gates III, which has 62.5 million followers on his (verified) Twitter profile. Look at the tweets: If you're trying to determine if an account is phony ...

Twitter under Elon Musk keeps getting ... we have to look at other parts of a profile to decide whether or not an account is trustworthy. When it comes to major celebrities, news organizations ...

In the latest chapter of Twitter strangeness, it’s surfaced that a tiny tweak to the profile description of legacy verified accounts will bring back the blue checkmark. Here’s how it works and ...

Since its acquisition by Elon Musk, a whole lot has changed at Twitter, including its official name which is now “X.” Another change that you might not have noticed is that profiles on Twitter ...