Twitter or X, whatever you might want to call it, is going through some issues with its identity. Now that the transition has happened, it is time to look forward and see what the future holds for the platform. Of course, with a new name comes a new change, and this change is in the form of giving users the option to hide their checkmarks.
Don't want people to know you paid for Twitter/X Blue? You can now hide the checkmark
Now, why would you want to hide it? Well, there was a time when the checkmark was coveted across the entire Twitter-verse. People with these checkmarks were trustworthy harbingers of truth (well, most of the time) until Elon Musk decided to buy the company and decided to make the blue checkmark part of the platform's subscription. Now, all you have to do is subscribe to Twitter Blue or X Blue, and you will have your checkmark. People who had the legacy checkmarks ended up losing their checkmarks, and while some caved in and paid for the subscription, a lot of people, including me, no longer find it coveted.
If you head over to Profile Customizations on Twitter/X, you will actually have the option to hide your blue checkmark. The page mentions that hiding the checkmark might take some features away, but we don't know for sure what features will be disabled. It turns out, however, that the ability to hide your blue checkmark has been in the works since March when mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi revealed that the platform is working on the ability to hide the checkmark.
#Twitter keeps working on the ability to control everything related to account verification and identity by adding the option to show or hide your blue checkmark on your profile 👀 pic.twitter.com/6uTjBON21N
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) March 21, 2023
We are not sure why anyone would want to hide their checkmarks. Maybe it is to save themselves from the embarrassment of paying to be verified, but still, people have choices and preferences, and we cannot really say about it. The new Twitter Blue, or X Blue feature, is slowly rolling out, so if you are subscribed to the service, you should be getting the feature too.
If you still miss the Twitter app on your phone and do not want the X, you can pick up an iPhone that still has the old app installed. You will only need to pay upwards of $25,000 for it, provided some passionate user didn't already get their hands on the device. Honestly, although I was surprised about this change and somewhat disappointed as well, I have realized that it did not have any impact on the overall usage of the platform. I am still active, and so are all the other people I was following, so I believe everything is working just fine. On the other hand, we cannot say the same for Threads, as things are not going well.
Source: TechCrunch
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