It might not seem like much to anyone who doesn't follow Masahiro Sakurai on social media, but the legendary Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director has finally been verified on Twitter with a blue badge. It's about time considering he's accumulated more than 700,000 followers and is arguably one of the most well-known people within the games industry.
Apart from sharing photos from Smash Bros. on a regular basis, Sakurai occasionally uses the platform to share important messages and updates with fans. In a recent tweet, Sakurai explains how he didn't even request or apply for it himself.
Verification also means fans can now immediately tell the difference between the real account and parody ones. For example, there's one fake Sakurai account with more than 100,000 followers that keeps suggesting an Among Us rep is on the way to Smash. And well, sometimes it catches people off guard.
So this should make it a lot easier to keep track of the real Masahiro Sakurai and the latest Smash developments. Are you one of his many followers over on Twitter? Leave a comment down below.
[source twitter.com]
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Super Smash Bros Verified
I'm sorry that joke was god awful
Wait he wasn't?
FINALLY! Sometimes it seems to take Twitter way too long to verify accounts that deserve them.
WOOOOOO! Hooray...I don't use Twitter...
Surprised it took that long since accounts with even less followers get verified for some reason
But is he verified, in the eyes of GOD?!
The man the myth the legend
He wasn't verified already? Never noticed tbh.
Now that Sora_Sakuraii (with two i's) can stop tricking everyone into thinking that sakurai is horn E
@FragRed Verification shouldn't be something people get when they "deserve" it. It should or is there to let you know that person/group/company is the official one. Everyone of some sort of notary or fame should have the check mark so no one is confused by fake accounts.
@CheekyZelda l believe so
@HotGoomba I've heard far worse jokes, don't worry about it.
Dad jokes are pretty hilariously awful, for instance.
rip funny sakurai account
That'll inhibit the fake accounts, lol. I gave up twitter in April last year after 9 or more years of fairly active use.
Finally, he can OFFICIALLY tell us that the remaining fighters are in his drawer.
A New Challenger Appears! ... in the ranks of The Army of Blue Checkmarks. ^^
@CheekyZelda Can God verify himself?
Better late than never, I suppose... On a corporate standpoint, that was surprisingly slow.
Great, now he can post as many death threats and hate speech as he wants and not fear any retribution!
Hooray, I got verified!
...Never ask me for anything ever again.
Not surprised, with how popular Sakurai is and how many parody accounts have popped up, this was bound to happen.
Like, O-M-G! That's, like, TOTES amaze. I literally can't even. Like, to be, like, recognized by, like, twitter, is like, a lifetime achievement and stuff.
Oh yeah I remember one of those parody Twitter accounts being of the face of an incredible chunky black man.
@RadNitro89 Still wondering why that image used to display when you searched Sakurai up on Google
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