I probably missed something, but where exactly in this process did they verify anything? It appears the person-to-be-verified was told how to tweet and asked for a phone number…and that was it? How is this ‘verification’ in any possible sense of the word?
I think it means more the process of getting the verification blue tick rather than any actual verification. I guess they manually verify it (email address, links from official site etc) before sending them the message to set up verification