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Do you want a verified account on Twitter? Now you can apply. - Recode

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You’ll need to send in some info as part of the application, like your birth date and phone number, and you need to have an actual photo on your profile. Twitter may require more verification, too, like a copy of a government-issued ID.

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Surely these will end up on wikileaks at some point. A much better idea is not give your sensitive personal data to yet another place where it can be lost from but to instead provide Twitter with proof of attributes from a third party.

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