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Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I don't quite see what your average Twitter user needs the information for about whose a paid member and whose not.
I recall reading (forgot where) that someone with the Blue Check-mark has more "weight" when retweeting and responding to tweets. And that the Blue Checks can easily bury anyone without a Blue Check in Twitters algorithm. This was done intentionally by Elon to pressure people into paying.
It's why artists like Adam Ellis blocks anyone with the Blue Check; right-wingers hate him, and they can really fuck up his reach, so he just blocks anyone with the Blue Check-mark who replies/re-tweets his work so they can't even interact with his tweets. And he isn't the only artist that does this.
I mean why would they hide it? The only people who bought it are twats who think they're cool.
You get to keep the premium features even if you hide the blue checkmark.