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Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 289 points 3 years ago (25 children)

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

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  • [–] 114 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/281834/Twitter-Blue-subscribers-can-now-hide-their-blue-checks#entry-comment-1290301

    this comment has quite a reasonable explanation. Your posts are boosted without you disclosing you paid for it.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 years ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years 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

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (16 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.

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  • [+] -18 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    I personally think subscribtion model is better than ads so mocking these people seems kinda odd

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I agree with this sentiment but I think the real issue with this change is that Twitter Blue subscribers get their content’s visibility boosted. Without the blue checkmark visible, it’s impossible to tell who had their content boosted through organic engagement, and who paid for it

    The Twitter Blue subscribers are not getting mocked for paying to remove ads. They are mocked for paying money to have their voices cary more weight. And they are paying that money to a company that as of late has supported CSAM, racism, and vaccine disinformation.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Right. And now, going into an election year where misinformation is growing in weight and volume, we will have no idea who's artificially boosting their content.

    Also, it means that every single breaking news tweet, who are you going to see first? All the dick riders who paid for Blue, which slants a very particular demographic's way.

    2024 is going to be a nightmare.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Do blue checks not see ads? I agree, when a service is subscription/donation only, it's way better. But if any part of the business model is ad based, it's shit, and paying to hide them won't make it any better.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    they see "half" ads >_>
    no joke

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