Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
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Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
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So.. if you can't see if someone is a "legit" (verified) account, why would you pay that fat f@ck for verifiXation?
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I assume twitter blue offers other perks, that people might want without the shame of it being publicly known.
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Their posts get prioritized in the algorithm iirc
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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.
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I heard of several people paying for blue to be able to edit tweets and such before Musk bought it.
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I thought that making blue check marks purchasable was one of the first things Musk did at Twitter after firing everyone.
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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.
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Paying for Twitter Blue wasn't a thing until after Musk bought Twitter
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I don't quite see what your average Twitter user needs the information for about whose a paid member and whose not.
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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.
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I mean why would they hide it? The only people who bought it are twats who think they're cool.
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You get to keep the premium features even if you hide the blue checkmark.
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