Metrika returns whether a public account carries its platform's verified badge, as a plain boolean, for Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Threads.
Why you would want it
The most common reason is disambiguation. Popular names attract impersonators, and a handle alone is not proof you are pointing at the account you think you are. If you are ingesting handles from a spreadsheet, a signup form, or a client brief, verified status is a quick check that you have the real one before you store it or display it.
The second reason is presentation. If you are rendering profiles in a directory, a leaderboard, or a media kit, users expect the badge to be there, and its absence is information too.
What verification actually means
Worth being precise, because it has moved: a verified badge no longer means the same thing on every platform, or the same thing it meant a few years ago. Some networks now attach it to a paid subscription; others still tie it to notability, and several have done both at different points.
So treat this datapoint as what it is, the platform's own badge on the public profile, rather than a portable trust score. It answers "does this account show as verified" accurately. It does not answer "is this account reputable", and no single boolean could.
What you get back
Verified status is an attribute rather than a metric, so it comes
back under attributes:
{
"data": [
{
"platform": "x",
"identifier": "nasa",
"status": "available",
"metrics": {
"followers": { "value": 95000000, "status": "available" }
},
"attributes": {
"verified": { "value": true, "status": "available" }
}
}
]
}Like every datapoint it carries its own status. When a badge
cannot be determined for an account, the status says so rather
than the value quietly reading false, so treat an unavailable
datapoint as unknown rather than unverified. Datapoint coverage
varies by platform and grows over time; the docs
list what is currently available for each one.
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