Press kit

Logos, screenshots, figures and a short description of Verified Handles, free to use when you write about it.

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What Verified Handles is

Verified Handles is a free, public directory of the official social-media handles and online identifiers of notable people and organisations. It gives journalists, researchers and anyone else one place to look up the accounts a person or organisation really runs, so they can follow, cite or contact the real one rather than an impersonator. Most entries are listed from public sources such as Wikidata and kept current as those sources change; an entry with the Verified badge has been checked by the Verified Handles team. Verified Handles is a non-profit service, run and funded by JEM Media (JEM MEDIA LTD).

Key figures

  • 155,486 entries listed
  • 712,582 handles
  • 76 platforms

Counted live from the directory; this page can be up to a day old.

About Verified Handles

A paragraph you can paste as it is:

Verified Handles is a free, public directory of the official social-media handles and online identifiers of notable people and organisations, so that anyone can find the real account rather than an impersonator. Entries are listed from public sources, including Wikidata, and corrected by reviewers and by the people and organisations themselves; an entry with the Verified badge has been checked by the Verified Handles team. Founded in 2020, it is a non-profit service run and funded by JEM Media (JEM MEDIA LTD). Its data is open: public domain under CC0, except text taken from Wikipedia. verifiedhandles.org

Founder: James Haworth

Logos

Colours

  • VH blue #1f3df0
  • VH blue, dark theme #6f8bff
  • Text #1c2128
  • Background, dark theme #0d1117
  • Background #ffffff

Screenshots

Public pages as anyone sees them, signed out, 3840 × 2700 pixels, in the light and dark themes. Select one for the full-size PNG.

  • The BBC Sport entry on Verified Handles: its social media accounts and websites, light theme
    An entry page, light theme
  • The BBC Sport entry on Verified Handles: its social media accounts and websites, dark theme
    An entry page, dark theme
  • Search results for “bbc” on Verified Handles, light theme
    Search, light theme
  • Search results for “bbc” on Verified Handles, dark theme
    Search, dark theme
  • The Verified Handles API documentation at /developers, light theme
    For developers, light theme
  • The Verified Handles API documentation at /developers, dark theme
    For developers, dark theme

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Press contact

Email press@verifiedhandles.org. The ZIP holds both logos, every screenshot and the paragraph above as a text file.