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  How to Get Verified on TikTok Getting your account verified on TikTok, just like with any other social media platform, can be a great boost for your brand. It lends you legitimacy, authenticity, and street cred — showing your followers, or potential followers, that you’re the real deal. However, it’s not easy to get the coveted blue checkmark — especially on TikTok. Verification is supposed to be for public figures, celebrities, brands, and publishers, but what exactly makes a public figure or a brand that’s “legit” enough? Well, TikTok’s Creator Launch Team has strict criteria and guidelines for granting verification. The main idea of verification is to protect popular creators who might be impersonated, copied, or bullied. They also want to attract celebrities, politicians, musicians, and other very popular figures to use their platform So if you want to get verified, you’ll need to meet those criteria. Can you request verification on TikTok? On most platforms, like Instagram a...

  AFP NEW YORK: Tesla helped push bitcoin to an all-time high on Monday after the carmaker anno­unced a $1.5 billion investment in the digital money and plans to accept the cryptocurrency from customers buying its electric vehicles. The announcement comes on the heels of a cheeky social media embrace of bitcoin by iconoclastic Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and marks the latest step in the mainstreaming of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin’s value has risen by about 50 per cent this year, but sceptics say it is still highly volatile and regulators warn it is vulnerable to illicit use. Musk, an expert at disrupting corporate norms as well as economic structures, last week briefly changed his Twitter bio to simply read “#bitcoin. He also has taken to social media in recent days to promote dogecoin, another digital money that was originally launched as a joke but has suddenly become more valuable. In a securities filing, Tesla described the bitcoin purchase as an effort to boost company liquidity. “In...