twitter blue subscribers can now hide the entire reason they spent money on it in the first place
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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this comment has quite a reasonable explanation. Your posts are boosted without you disclosing you paid for it.
Well that sounds terrible. At least with the blue logo you can just hide or block their posts to get to the organic engagement.
yeah, seems like now it will be very difficult to weed them out... just another reason to go away from twitter
Knowing how well Twitter is being maintained, there's likely going to be something left in the code to give Blue people away
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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
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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.
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I fucking love how news outlets refuse to acknowledge the new name.
I am all in on only referring to it as Twitter.
I’ve taken to calling it “The service formerly known as Twitter.”
Nah just disrespect the whole sham.
Call it Twitter. Call them tweets.
Nobody calls Facebook "Meta".
People call the company that owns Facebook Meta all the time. Facebook is still called Facebook because they didn't change Facebook to Meta, they changed The Facebook Company to Meta.
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If you want to hide something it implies that there is shame in it.
Edit: I didn’t finish my thought. My bad. I meant in cases like this, not in general. There are multiple exclusions to my above statement. It’s what I get for being half asleep and on the internet.
I would assume that's because, at least partially, because there's an abundance of addons which automatically block blue checks.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't also give them more weight in the algorithm. Any time you load a thread with more than a few comments, there's like 5 trolls on top with bullshit comments.
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So I guess now you can get your tweets pushed without disclosing that you payed for it…?
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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.
I was head of an IT department at the time and distinctly remember telling everyone in a team meeting that this "micro-blogging" was pointless, going nowhere and we should ignore it. Wrong!
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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 assume twitter blue offers other perks, that people might want without the shame of it being publicly known.
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What snowflakes
Never been a Twitter - or "X" - user, but:
Isn't it the whole point to show everyone your blue check mark that you have been approved or something like that? How else would one know that you are the real deal?
That was the original purpose of the checkmark, but Elon took them away from everybody who didn't pay for Blue or corporate verification (and didn't have over a million followers at the time) and started giving them to everybody who paid for Blue and added a phone number.
So now the checkmark just means they are paying for "X." Of course, I'm sure some people are now ashamed that they're paying, so they have the option to hide it now.
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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 😆
Cucked behavior if you're gonna pay Elon musk you need to wear that shame
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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.
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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.
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when you are too much of a little cunt to own up to the fact that you paid money for that cocksucker.
You'll still be able to identify by them by their bad posts.
Bruh🗿
Twitter checks are the new MAGA hats.
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?
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So u basically hiding something that u paid to show off in the first place (•_•)
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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.
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