Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks

stoiclime@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.world – 665 points –
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
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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.

It’s still pretty obvious. If there’s a random bad take in the middle of a sea of blue check bad takes, you know instantly that person is hiding their check. Otherwise, they wouldn’t get algorithmically pushed up with the other checks.