About Twitter Verified Organizations
Sign up for Verified Organizations here.
We’re creating the most trusted place on the internet for organizations to verify their affiliations and reach their followers.
Twitter Verified Organizations enables organizations of all types–businesses, non-profits, and government institutions–to sign up and manage their verification and to affiliate and verify any related account. Please see Purchaser Terms of Service for more info.
Any organization that purchases a subscription to Verified Organizations will receive a gold checkmark and square avatar if they are a business or non-profit, or a grey checkmark and square avatar if they are a governmental or multilateral organization. Learn more about profile labels on Twitter and what they mean.
In addition, organizations can choose to affiliate any Twitter account associated with them. An affiliated account receives verification (denoted by either a blue, gold, or grey checkmark) as well as an affiliate badge, a small image of their parent organization's profile picture, displayed next to their checkmark. Clicking or pressing this badge takes a user directly to the affiliated organization, making it a great driver of followers from your whole network on Twitter.
For example, a company can affiliate their leadership, brands, support handles, employees or teams. A government can affiliate its precincts, officials, or their other entities. There is no limit to the number of affiliates an organization can have, or who they can affiliate (as long as they are related). All vetted and approved government organization and government individuals accounts can receive a grey checkmark and affiliate badge if they sign up for Verified Organizations.
By subscribing, organizations can access our new tool to manage verification, meaning you have full control over your organization's presence on Twitter. You’ll be able to add and remove affiliated accounts at any time. Affiliates must accept an invite in order to receive verification.
A Twitter Verified Organizations subscription is $1,000/month and $50/month for each additional affiliate (plus any applicable tax) in the U.S. Prices may vary by region and are subject to change. Click here for pricing information.
Features
Twitter Verified Organizations elevates and distinguishes organizations and their affiliates on Twitter. Gold and grey checkmarks, square avatars, and custom affiliation badges verify and differentiate you and your entities main account, spokespeople and subsidiary accounts. We will continue to improve our service and may change our features from time to time.
Twitter reserves the right without notice to remove your checkmark or other badging at any time at its sole discretion, including if you violate our Purchaser Terms, Terms of Service, and policies, or if your account is suspended.
Verified Organizations Portal
We’re launching an entirely new feature on Twitter that lets any Verified Organization sign up, manage their billing, and verify their network.
The Twitter Verified Organization portal lets organizations add and remove affiliated accounts and provides immediate verification status to anyone in their network who accepts their invitation to affiliate. This could be for new employees, a newly launched movie franchise, or recent team changes for professional sports groups.
Learn more about how to use the Twitter Verified Organizations Portal here.
Affiliations
The best marketing comes directly from real people on Twitter. Now, you can affiliate your organization’s champions so that everyone knows where they work. Affiliates receive a small image of their organization's Twitter account profile picture next to their name every time they Tweet, send a DM, or appear in search.
You can affiliate anyone who represents or is associated with your organization: leadership, journalists, sports teams and players, politicians, customer support, franchises, sub-brands, products and so on. An account you invite to affiliate must accept your invitation before they receive the affiliation badge.
Custom Organization Profile
Verified Organizations receive a number of customizations to their profile. In addition to gold checkmarks, businesses also receive a square avatar, clearly distinguishing them from other organizations.
All Verified Organizations accounts also receive a new tab on their profile that lists all affiliated accounts. This appears next to the Tweets tab and displays any affiliated accounts.
With affiliation badges and the affiliation tab, this makes it easy for visitors to click on the badge of an affiliate, arrive at the organization’s profile, and see all the other affiliated accounts in one place.
Impersonation Defense
All Verified Organizations and their affiliated accounts are defended against impersonation. Accounts are monitored for changes (including display names, profile photos, and usernames) and flagged for further review if impersonation is detected.
In addition, all Verified Organizations have access to Premium Support which enables you to quickly escalate any critical issues.
Premium Support
Verified Organizations have access to Premium Support.
Organizations experiencing issues, including with onboarding, removing or adding affiliates, billing, or issues with impersonation of your accounts, can contact Premium Support and we will ensure you timely support and escalations.
Elevated Tweet, DM, and media upload limits
Verified Organizations and their affiliates have significantly elevated Tweet, DM, and media upload rate limits. Verified Organizations subscribers can use this to provide seamless customer support, live-Tweet events, or run auto-response campaigns.
Twitter Blue
All accounts (organizations and their affiliates) subscribed to Verified Organizations will receive all the benefits of Twitter Blue. You’ll get access to features like Edit Tweet, Bookmark Folders, Longer Tweets, Prioritized rankings in conversations, and Half ads.*
See more on Twitter Blue here.
*Not all features available on all platforms and locations. Twitter Blue and Verified Organizations features may change periodically as we keep improving the service.
How to apply
To apply for Twitter Verified Organizations, sign up here. We support signups globally. To do so follow these steps:
- Sign up and add your eligibility criteria to the form
- Add your payment details
- Your account will be reviewed
- You will be able to leverage all the benefits of Twitter Blue, but your organization will not receive a gold or grey checkmark and you will not be able to add affiliated accounts until your account is approved
- Once reviewed and approved, your account will immediately be verified and you will be able to add accounts as affiliates
Only organization accounts (businesses, non-profits, governments, and multilateral organizations) are allowed on Verified Organizations. Personal accounts are not allowed on Verified Organizations. Accounts which sign up for Verified Organizations but are not an organization account will not be refunded.
Please note: some restrictions apply. Also review our Purchaser Terms of Service.
Criteria for eligibility
- An organization must provide a matching active Twitter account, current organization email address, and current website domain when they sign up.
- An organization must have access to and manage the matching active account they wish to verify. You will be required to authenticate your account when you activate your new subscription.
- For government organizations, you must provide an official government email address (e.g., “.gov”).
- Your organization's profile must be complete with an accurate profile photo, bio, and display name.
- You may be asked to provide additional details.
We support credit card payments and invoicing.
Availability
The Verified Organizations Portal is a web-only, enterprise feature, meaning management and billing via the portal are exclusively available on web.
Accounts who receive checkmarks, affiliation badges, and Twitter Blue can manage their settings on the web, and in the iOS and Android apps.
Twitter Verified Organizations is available globally. See our pricing here.
How to use Twitter Verified Organizations
The Twitter Verified Organizations portal is designed to be as flexible and easy to use as possible. Once your organization is onboarded, you’ll be able to add and remove affiliated accounts, and manage your billing all in one place.
- Any organization can sign up directly in the app via this link.
- You will be prompted to choose a payment method Direct or Invoicing:
a. Direct payments support credit cards and some forms of wire transfer and let you pay upfront and get access immediately
b. Invoicing is for purchase orders above 25 affiliates, allowing organizations to bulk order and process internally. Purchases can be made via wire and bank transfer and must be completed within 60 days. - Once you complete your purchase your account will be reviewed per our criteria above and approved if it meets them.
- You’ll be notified (via email) that your account is ready to activate. You can also follow this link to complete onboarding.
- Your account will be ready to use and you can begin adding affiliated accounts.
Twitter Verified Organizations lets any organization add accounts affiliated with their organization. You are responsible for any account you affiliate as per our Purchaser Terms of Service, Terms of Service, and other policies. To add affiliated accounts:
- Click Add accounts.
- A popup will appear where you can search for any account on Twitter.
- You can add as many affiliates as you want. These accounts must be related to your account and conform to our Purchaser Terms of Service.
- To add an affiliate click the “Send Invite” button.
- When you send an invite, the affiliated user will be notified (via email and push notification) that you have invited them to join.
- They will be added to the “Pending” tab in the Portal.
- Once the user accepts, they will immediately get a checkmark and affiliate badge, and they will move from the “Pending” tab to the “Accounts” tab.
- You can remove affiliated accounts quickly and easily by clicking the “X” remove button in the row next to any affiliated account.
- You’ll be prompted to confirm with “Are you sure you want to remove @handle?”
- Clicking “Yes, do it” will immediately remove both verification and affiliation badges for the affiliated account.
- Note: The removed affiliated account will lose verification and affiliation but you will continue to be billed for the affiliated account until the end of the next billing cycle for that account.
- To cancel your subscription, navigate to the Settings tab in your Portal.
- Click the cancellation link.
- Canceling Verified Organizations will result in your organization immediately losing its gold checkmark. All affiliated accounts will be immediately removed from your organization’s profile and lose their gold or blue checkmarks and affiliate badges.
- You will not be refunded for the remaining period left on your subscription before your next billing cycle. You will not be billed after that.
- Navigate to the Billing tab in your Portal.
- You’ll be taken to our payment provider’s, Stripe, customer billing portal.
- Here, you’ll be able to manage your billing details.