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[–] [email protected] 289 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowing how well Twitter is being maintained, there's likely going to be something left in the code to give Blue people away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And if so, the blocker I have on PC will find them and block them still.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh I see, the blue checks have become a direct competition to bot farms. I think I'd rather give the money to a bunch of soulless machines than a soulless human.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also it let's Elon pretend that more people are subbed than really are. We know he likes to inflate the perception of whose willing to pay for it after he gave out a bunch of free checks to celebrities who refused to sign up

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Seems like they're getting the "freedom of speech" they paid for.