Twitter Starts Verifying Accounts Without Verifying Them

It looks like Twitter has just rolled out its verified accounts. As you can seeing on #-Link-Snipped-#, there's a "Verified Account" logo right above his name. Twitter has #-Link-Snipped-# that it was going to do this, but did so tonight without warning. What's odd is that Michael never actually verified his account with anyone at Twitter. Granted, it's obvious that it is his actual account, but it's still a bit odd that they would verify it without, you know, verifying it. Expect to see this rolling out over more accounts over the next several days.

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