Twitter has finally launched a new "verified accounts" feature. This is for   every users to be sure that the person they are following is in fact who they say they are.

I've run into this issue many many times on twitter. The barrier to entry of creating an account and gaining followers is practically 0.

For example, someone thought it would be funny to take my account name,
misspell it by one letter,
mock my background, take my image and start spamming,
 following and saying mean things to those I often interact with online.

Now, at a first glance of someone who is checking their @replies and mentions would immediately think that this was me - this is a problem.
 Especially seconds later when I get a call from a brand I've worked with asking why I said "that terrible thing" to them - HI. THAT WASN'T ME!!

...and what do you do if someone is doing this to you? Who do you call?

Will verified accounts solve this issue? One thing that twitter isn't very good at is communication with its users - which is surprising since it's a communication platform. Unless you're following people who work there or the actual twitter account, or know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone.. you might be left in the dark.

So, are verified accounts going to cause some confusion down the road when people who don't get that verified label.. but are actually who they say they are?
Are people only going to begin to trust verified accounts?
How exactly do you get verified?
Is anyone going to even notice that there is such a thing as verified accounts?
 What criteria goes into making sure you are the rightful owner of the account?
This isn't something that can really be automated so how many people will twitter need to employ to keep this up and make sure that everyone is happy?

Even though they have a blog, how many normal users go and check it for the latest updates on what's happening on twitter? Probably not very many. At times I think twitter forgets about the common user and takes for granted its start as a site populated by the tech elite. Twitter has found their way into the mainstream world and not everyone is as quick to catch on to things as we (tech people) are.