- X— formerly known as Twitter — is now letting Blue subscribers hide once coveted “blue checks.”
- Users who have not subscribed to Blue have ridiculed “blue-check” accounts as a way of paying for Blue.
- Elon Musk called Twitter’s previous verification process a “lords & peasants system.”
X, the site formerly known as Twitter, is now letting its Blue subscribers hide the once coveted verification “blue check” — the status symbol they pay $8 a month for — on their account.
X Blue, a platform’s “premium service subscription,” gives paid users access to a range of features in the app. These include the ability edit posts and to share longer video clips. Subscribed users are also given priority in conversation rankings below posts and search results, giving Blue subscribers greater engagement with a larger audience.
Subscribing gives you a blue check mark that verifies your account.
X Blue subscribers can now hide this mark.
As a subscriber you can hide your checkmark from your account. The checkmark is hidden from your profile and all posts. You may still see the checkmark in certain places, or some features that reveal your subscription. “Some features may not be accessible while your checkmark has been hidden.” According to X Blue’s Help Center.
Elon Musk took over the site in last year and has made an effort since then to make it more user-friendly. Fully overhaulIts verification process. In November, he announced the Blue subscription plan, saying Twitter’s previous “lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.”
“Power to people!” Musk said, “Blue for $8/month.”
Twitter was then called X. But after users began making fun of those who had paid for a subscription, and celebrities like Lili Reinhart, the actress, and Stephen King, an author, said that they would not be paying a check to receive it, X became known as Twitter. began hidingWho had paid for one?
