Now that Dick Butkus is verified on Twitter, there is no stopping him.

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Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus may have stopped playing for the Chicago Bears long before the technology even came around, but now that he’s been verified by Twitter, Chicago is stepping up and taking notice of his hilarious Tweets.

After months of trying to get that little blue check mark, he reached success just a few days ago:

Shortly thereafter, he called out a sworn enemy to the north 😂:

He also seems to be learning fast about the social influencer game:

He’s also been doing some analytics:

He also seems to be planning to dive more into other emerging technologies:

Dick Butkus is on Twitter. Get used to it.

Message received, good sir. Message received.

Eric Kristensen is a marginally famous regional celebrity with 101WKQX. You can follow him on Twitter — @erickristensen. He would greatly appreciate that.