Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
Now nobody can tell if you paid for Twitter or not.
twitter blue subscribers can now hide the entire reason they spent money on it in the first place
this comment has quite a reasonable explanation. Your posts are boosted without you disclosing you paid for it.
well that explains why whenever i look at a tweet i have to scroll past all the top comments which are inevitably the stupidest ones
Also it let's Elon pretend that more people are subbed than really are. We know he likes to inflate the perception of whose willing to pay for it after he gave out a bunch of free checks to celebrities who refused to sign up
Oh I see, the blue checks have become a direct competition to bot farms. I think I'd rather give the money to a bunch of soulless machines than a soulless human.
They're probably tired of the harassment they're getting for paying for it. A lot of the blue check tweets I've seen have a comment section mocking and berating them. I think it's a shame they get to hide it. If they paid for it they should deal with the harassment that goes with it.
I fucking love how news outlets refuse to acknowledge the new name.
I am all in on only referring to it as Twitter.
ex twitter
I personally am not willing to gloss over the stupidity of Musk and fix his mistakes. I am calling it X and Xers just to emphasize how stupid he is.
So I guess now you can get your tweets pushed without disclosing that you payed for it…?
That's a bingo
"We just say bingo"
Ah that makes more sense.
That must be the true reason behind this move
They're Xes, not tweets.
They were bullied too much ahahahahahah my goodness
Bro I love bullying the chuds, magas and domestic terrorists.
But when you see a reply from a small account with few interactions high up under a popular post, you’re still going to know it’s a paying simp.
It’s like putting a clown nose whilst wearing your nazi uniform. People can still see the uniform, but now they also think you’re a clown.
This is hilarious. Thank God I never made an account on that cesspool.
I was either on my last slide phone or my first smart phone when Twitter came out and Facebook was beginning it's ascent to late 2000s domination.
From the beginning, I thought the concept of effectively posting text messages on this new Twitter thing made no sense at all, so I never bothered making an account.
However many years later, I'm super glad I thought Twitter v1.0 was so silly.
You mean you didn’t want to spend 10-20 cents per tweet and per reply to you and from you to share 140 characters a pop to the internet?
Glad I wasn’t the only one.
Shit never made sense to me either.
They can't even be proud of their decision to lick the boot. I'd call them worms but that would be an insult to the worms.
So.. if you can't see if someone is a "legit" (verified) account, why would you pay that fat f@ck for verifiXation?
I don't quite see what your average Twitter user needs the information for about whose a paid member and whose not.
I recall reading (forgot where) that someone with the Blue Check-mark has more "weight" when retweeting and responding to tweets. And that the Blue Checks can easily bury anyone without a Blue Check in Twitters algorithm. This was done intentionally by Elon to pressure people into paying.
It's why artists like Adam Ellis blocks anyone with the Blue Check; right-wingers hate him, and they can really fuck up his reach, so he just blocks anyone with the Blue Check-mark who replies/re-tweets his work so they can't even interact with his tweets. And he isn't the only artist that does this.
What snowflakes
All I ever see is a stream of stupidity from blue checkmarks. Let them wear that badge with shame.
This is freaking hilarious! Even Twitter knows how blue checkmarks are now badges of shame
Should charge extra for the ability to hide them 😆
Isn't having the mark part of the flex?
It also promotes your tweets. So now you can have all your tweets at the top, without people immediately seeing that you are a grifter who paid for it. This isn't going to be abused in a multitude of ways at all.
Imagine using Twitter after everything that's happened
You'd be surprised how many mindful people have a mastodon profile, "in case twitter finally goes down", but they didn't use it to this day...
If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.
Couldn't agree more.
Nah, the whole problem is that we don't have any say on the sort of train wreck it's becoming for regular users and the creators that we follow. As much as I could just leave, that doesn't help the people I got there to support to begin with.
What's the problem?
Some people talk of it as if it's a matter of principles. That even remaining as a free user in an unprofitable platform is making it pay off, like Elon Musk wins as long as people stay there, as if it was solely about Elon's pride and not the millions of people who still use it for community or professionally.
Seems like a variant of that generalized disdain that a lot of people have for social media they don't use.
It's one thing to promote the Fediverse, it's another to say that whoever doesn't immediately move over is to blame for everything bad being inflicted on them, which is reductive to say the least.
What's next, a Honda logo to hide the logo on their Tesla?
Bet Elon wanted this because people kept blocking anyone with the blue checkmark, and the people that paid for it kept crying about being blocked.
That's fantastic.
You'll still be able to identify by them by their bad posts.
when you are too much of a little cunt to own up to the fact that you paid money for that cocksucker.
Twitter checks are the new MAGA hats.
Bruh🗿
So u basically hiding something that u paid to show off in the first place (•_•)
They pay so their bullshit gets boosted and now we can't even see it at a glance anymore. Disinformation in Twitter is going to get real fun.
Now why would they want to do that, seems odd. Wouldnt they want to show they are supporting the free speech (their CEO says this is the case) platform, what would it gain you to hide this badge?
(https://kbin.social/u/countsickness)[countsickness] So I guess now you can get your tweets pushed without disclosing that you payed for it…?Again this still feels like they are dishonestly trying to achieve something. Is there another app out there like this that allows this kind of option?
I believe you get some premium features along with the subscribtion which probably is the main reason people are paying for it though I'm sure some just want the blue tick too.
Hide your shame? Not sure who this appeals to.
Shouldn't it be renamed to "X Blue"?
You know your paid model is going well when you feel the need to give people the option to hide the fact they’re paying.
I was surprised they didn’t roll this out from the jump, I bet they could have gotten a lot more accounts to do it on the dl. But now everyone is pot committed to blue checks being cringe or not.
Whats hilarious is none of the news outlets are calling it X. Everyone is still calling it Twitter.
I bet Elon is raging 🤣
Why the hell would anyone buy twitter blue if they wanted to hide their checks, the stupidity of Elon lmao.
I like how Elon X is destroying (t)his company. He does it in the probably most embarassing way possible, ditching his own credibility. Nice!
And so the clown car has made its first full rotation…
I can't figure out why he wants users to hide it??
Because people who have it were mocked and then cried to Elon about it
What other benefits does Blue have other than the checkmark?
Your posts and replies get prioritized. But if people keep blocking everyone with a blue checkmark, that defeats the purpose of that.
You can still go to any popular tweet, and block every user from the top until the first no-nonsense reply.
I think, you have a higher character limit?