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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 289 points 1 year ago

twitter blue subscribers can now hide the entire reason they spent money on it in the first place

[-] Hovenko@kbin.social 114 points 1 year ago
[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Well that sounds terrible. At least with the blue logo you can just hide or block their posts to get to the organic engagement.

[-] ZEEEPh@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

yeah, seems like now it will be very difficult to weed them out... just another reason to go away from twitter

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 10 points 1 year ago

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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[-] ScrotesforGoats@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

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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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 174 points 1 year ago

I fucking love how news outlets refuse to acknowledge the new name.

I am all in on only referring to it as Twitter.

[-] Spaceman2901@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

I’ve taken to calling it “The service formerly known as Twitter.”

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Nah just disrespect the whole sham.

Call it Twitter. Call them tweets.

Nobody calls Facebook "Meta".

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

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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[-] countsickness@kbin.social 79 points 1 year ago

So I guess now you can get your tweets pushed without disclosing that you payed for it…?

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

They were bullied too much ahahahahahah my goodness

[-] Kururin@talk.kururin.tech 13 points 1 year ago

Bro I love bullying the chuds, magas and domestic terrorists.

[-] sijt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

This is hilarious. Thank God I never made an account on that cesspool.

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

So.. if you can't see if someone is a "legit" (verified) account, why would you pay that fat f@ck for verifiXation?

[-] ZagTheRaccoon@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago

I assume twitter blue offers other perks, that people might want without the shame of it being publicly known.

[-] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Their posts get prioritized in the algorithm iirc

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[-] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

What snowflakes

[-] mec287@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

All I ever see is a stream of stupidity from blue checkmarks. Let them wear that badge with shame.

[-] MaoWasRight@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

This is freaking hilarious! Even Twitter knows how blue checkmarks are now badges of shame

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Should charge extra for the ability to hide them 😆

[-] nicerdicer@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

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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[-] gorogorochan@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Isn't having the mark part of the flex?

[-] Proweruser@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.

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[-] Lowered_lifted@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Cucked behavior if you're gonna pay Elon musk you need to wear that shame

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[-] Tango@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Imagine using Twitter after everything that's happened

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[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

You'll still be able to identify by them by their bad posts.

[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

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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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

What's next, a Honda logo to hide the logo on their Tesla?

[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

when you are too much of a little cunt to own up to the fact that you paid money for that cocksucker.

[-] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Twitter checks are the new MAGA hats.

[-] Im28xwa 16 points 1 year ago
[-] HorreC@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

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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[-] llxerneasll@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So u basically hiding something that u paid to show off in the first place (•_•)

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[-] Toasteh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Hide your shame? Not sure who this appeals to.

[-] Paisehla@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Shouldn't it be renamed to "X Blue"?

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