Glossary · account-status
What is Verification badge?
A verification badge is the tick a platform puts next to an account name to confirm it is who it claims to be. The rules differ by platform and keep changing. YouTube grants a channel verification tick on eligibility that has publicly included reaching 100,000 subscribers, and separately verifies channels for name-linking purposes. TikTok grants verification free, on its own judgement, and does not sell it. Meta runs a paid subscription that includes a badge, rolled out country by country. What a badge does not do is increase your reach — it is an identity signal, useful mainly for stopping fake accounts using your name and for reassuring people before they pay you.
What does Verification badge mean for a business in Pakistan?
Do not buy a tick from anyone on WhatsApp or Facebook offering it for PKR 20,000 to PKR 60,000. It is the most common social-media scam aimed at Pakistani business owners, and the usual result is a lost password and an account someone else now runs. If a paid badge is genuinely available to you, it will appear inside the official app under settings, not in a DM.
A worked example
A Blue Area travel agency finds four fake pages using its logo, two of them taking PKR 15,000 deposits for umrah bookings. After verification and a pinned notice naming the one real page, impersonation complaints in the DMs fall from about 6 a week to under 1.
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Verification badge — quick answers
What does Verification badge mean?
A verification badge is the tick a platform puts next to an account name to confirm it is who it claims to be. The rules differ by platform and keep changing.
Verification badge ko Urdu mein kya kehte hain?
تصدیقی نشان — though in practice almost everyone in Pakistan says "blue tick". Do not buy a tick from anyone on WhatsApp or Facebook offering it for PKR 20,000 to PKR 60,000.
Why does Verification badge matter for a business in Pakistan?
Do not buy a tick from anyone on WhatsApp or Facebook offering it for PKR 20,000 to PKR 60,000. It is the most common social-media scam aimed at Pakistani business owners, and the usual result is a lost password and an account someone else now runs. If a paid badge is genuinely available to you, it will appear inside the official app under settings, not in a DM.
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