Twitter is turning blue: Twitter announced an online application process to request to verify your account – this blue badge famous people proudly carry on their account, according to PR Newswire. “We want to make it even easier for people to find creators and influencers on Twitter so it makes sense for us to let people apply for verification,” said Tina Bhatnaga, Twitter’s vice president of User Services. “We hope opening up this application process results in more people finding great, high-quality accounts to follow, and for these creators and influencers to connect with a broader audience.”

More high-quality accounts? Check the screenshot of The Next Web’s reporter who got his account verified and whose bio now reads: “Reporter at @thenextweb waiting for Twitter to delete my account once they find out I’m not a guru or ninja at anything.” Users could apply for verification before, but Twitter removed the feature a few years ago, “presumably due to the number of new and otherwise non-worthy (spam, parody, etc,) accounts seeking verification,” Clark writes in an article by The Next Web. The way it went since then was that Twitter would verify accounts manually and users could not request it, Clark writes. Now, only 187,000 of Twitter’s 320 mn monthly users are verified, according to The Telegraph.