Twitter Now Lets Paid Users Hide Their Checkmarks

tnews August 2, 2023 1 min read

The Verge reports:

Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X Blue, now includes the option to hide the notorious blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the “hide your blue checkmark” option on the web and in mobile apps, offering the ability to hide that they’re paying for Twitter and avoid memes about how “this mf paid for twitter.” If you subscribe to Twitter Blue the service will now add an optional blue checkmark to your profile with a “verified since” date attached. Legacy verified accounts include the date an account was originally verified on Twitter before the Blue subscription system.

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Elon stans can now hide their shame. What a bizarre, idiotic company and lead technologist. https://t.co/0R0oYmk0PP

— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) August 2, 2023

There’s just something hilarious about running a company so badly that you have to create a feature that lets your users hide the fact that they paid for your product.https://t.co/3Uh731yHnG

— Absurdistwords (@absurdistwords) August 2, 2023

now the only way we’ll know who paid for Twitter is if they’re screaming in the comments about how socialism is turning us all into trudeau dick-sucking commies the second we suggest helping poor people https://t.co/oOSq2I6SDm

— Clare Blackwood (@clareblackwood) August 2, 2023