Fragile Twitter Blue Subscribers Can Now Conceal Their Blue Checks

Twitter Blue (now X Blue) subscribers now have the choice of hiding their blue checkmarks, which (exterior of some legacy publications) has served as a widely-mocked indication {that a} person willingly paid $8 per 30 days for a free service. Why? As The Verge notes, it’s most likely due to an array of harsh memes that appear to infiltrate the conversations of any Twitter Blue person’s publish, probably the most well-known of which is a model pointing at one other model with the caption “this mf paid for Twitter.”

Twitter Blue is an possibility the place paid customers could make longer posts and get prioritized rankings in conversations and search. And it’s now pretty simple to cover this standing. “As a subscriber, you possibly can select to cover your checkmark in your account,” notes a Twitter/X help web page. “The checkmark can be hidden in your profile and posts. The checkmark should seem in some locations ,and a few options may nonetheless reveal you might have an energetic subscription. Some options will not be obtainable whereas your checkmark is hidden. We are going to proceed to evolve this characteristic to make it higher for you.”

Oddly, this considerably contradicts one other Twitter coverage on the identical web page. “Blue checkmarks obtained with a Twitter Blue subscription can’t be turned off by subscribers throughout the time period of their subscription,” they counsel. “Even canceling the subscription won’t take away the blue checkmark till the subscription time period expires.”