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Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So.. if you can't see if someone is a "legit" (verified) account, why would you pay that fat f@ck for verifiXation?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I assume twitter blue offers other perks, that people might want without the shame of it being publicly known.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their posts get prioritized in the algorithm iirc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

By a vast margin. Replies are apparently unusable as a thing for communication because if you have a checkmark the algorithm ignores any other consideration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I heard of several people paying for blue to be able to edit tweets and such before Musk bought it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought that making blue check marks purchasable was one of the first things Musk did at Twitter after firing everyone.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I don't know what it was called, but the purchasable blue check marks thing built off of an already existing service. It might have had a different name, I don't remember.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Paying for Twitter Blue wasn't a thing until after Musk bought Twitter

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't quite see what your average Twitter user needs the information for about whose a paid member and whose not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean why would they hide it? The only people who bought it are twats who think they're cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You get to keep the premium features even if you hide the blue checkmark.