An Analysis of the Characteristics of Verified Twitter Users

Abstract

Twitter, the most popular microblog, contains a large variety of users as a result of its huge popularity. Twitter manually verifies the accounts which are deemed worthy of public interest. As a natural consequence of being verified, users trust these verified accounts since they represent legitimate users, and are managed by authorized users. To the best of our knowledge, Twitter has never revealed the requirements of being verified. In this study, in order to shed light on the characteristics of verified Twitter users, a software, which is based on Python programming language that utilizes a recent dataset, which consists of 297,798 verified Twitter users, was implemented within the scope of this study. The characteristics of verified Twitter users such as being public, and having a customized profile were revealed as a result of the analysis of the utilized dataset.

Keywords

• twitter
• mikroblog
• sosyal medya analizi
• doğrulanmış kullanıcılar
• doğrulama
• twitter
• microblog
• social media analysis
• verified users
• verification