That was the original purpose.
Then they started removing check marks from already verified accounts because they didn't like their posts. They also started refusing to verify the "wrong" type of people. Effectively making it a 'twitter approved' status badge
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Wow so crazy.
It's almost as if you typed 'Kevin Spacey' into the search function and it returned all the results containing Kevin Spacey.