“Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their checkmarks”
Elon managed to take the once-coveted blue check and turned it into something that’s embarrassing enough to warrant wanting to hide it 😂
Don’t need the blue checkmark to know who the tools are, there’s a whole shed full of them and 𝕏 marks the spot.
That was a good one.
Not anymore, the city had them take it down.
So they’re effectively paying for nothing now if they hide the blue check mark right?
They probably still get the engagement boost by putting their replies at the top. This is insidious. I’ve been blocking most blue checks but this might make Twitter unusable.
Ah, so like nazis can pay for blue, get their shit at the top of the feed, and then Twitter can pretend that this is just a naturally popular opinion and nobody can prove that they’re pushing nazi opinions for money?
It all makes sense now!
For me it was already unusable. The Canadian trending page is always full of right wing conspiracy and most posts have some sort of hate speech comments.
Same as the US trending page.
Oh, so like reddit.
Idk reddit has always been pretty liberal for the most part. Of course there are right wing subs but overall the site is pretty left leaning.
not in canada it wasn’t. all the US politics is very left-leaning, but the canadian right really took over on reddit. there were a few left-wing subs like /r/onguardforthee, but most of the canada-related subs were hard right-wing.
Liberal in a practicall sense which is the majority of people. although they have tendency to larp as socialists
Eh. I disagree. If you look at /r/politics it’s like 90% neoliberals commenting.
What is a neoliberal to you?
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this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, eh?
No, they also get higher limits, if I understand correctly. Longer messages and videos, more DMs, looking at more posts, etc.
Those are paid features?
Jesus Christ.
paid accounts get their posts ranked higher (supposedly)
Ah right, I forgot about those new features but it seemed liked the initial benefit was just the blue check mark
In other news, Tesla is now selling Toyota Camry body conversion kits for the Model S.
Fuck me, I wish
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It doesn’t. There’s a movement (no idea how well known this is) to not engage with toxic people that have a check mark because they can get money from twitter for that. Hiding the checkmark is most likely for that purpose; keep engagement, thus keep money flowing toward hate groups.
What makes you assume it’s the “alt righters”?
Edit: Answer the question. Downvoting me does nothing, you fools.
steps in shit
“Hey it smells like you stepped in shit.”
“What makes you assume it’s shit?”
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No one bothered to answer you, so I will try: Since the takeover by Musk, the group who felt the most emboldened where people on the right spectrum, because of what Musk is putting out on his feed. It’s mostly stale memes, retweets of stuff his other companies do and tons of right wing stuff: Tucker Carlson is just the most famous but his liked feed is filled to the brim with obscure assholes! It’s insane! If you don’t believe me, there are videos on YouTube where people sift through his feed and it’s just maddening, how such an idiot could become one of the richest people in the world!
Anyway, to answer your question: alt righters usually cheer on most of the stuff Musk is implementing, with the blue checkmark definitely being one of the main “signs” they wore with a certain pride and as a sign of support of Musk. I guess now Twitter (I refuse to call it anything different!) has become so uncool even in the cringiest corner of the right wing that they have to give them the option to turn it off otherwise they will cancel the subscription.
I appreciate the explanation.
Musk behaves like an alt-right idiot. Anyone who wants to give him money, must be an alt-right idiot too. Not that hard to figure out. Now people are shaming them for giving the alt-right idiot money for a blue mark on their profile. And since they are very, very fragile snowflakes, they now can hide it to keep from being taunted. But they still must give Musk money for the blue mark they hide
I love the idea that they’d charge extra for hiding!
You know the saying a fool and his money
Remember when Bethesda introduced Fallout 1st into Fallout 76 and everybody started griefing subscribers in-game for actually paying Bethesda for a shitty service?
We’ve just seen the social equivalent of that.
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Who would’ve known that people who like Musk are assholes?
/s
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So you just follow Twitter’s example and stop paying for it.
Good. It should never have been valued
Isn’t this self-defeating though? They’ll still get their replies/tweets prioritized so it will be obvious still who has a check mark. Making fun of people who pay for that shit is going to increase if anything because now they have an option to let the world know they’re embarrassed.
Another genius move from business genius.
The twitter checkmark was a sign of embarrassment long before elon bought the company
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Why would you contact them through twitter?
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not if you were some dude with a podcast that has 300 subscribers. so many people desperately wanted a blue check before they were for sale.
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Can this not be easily used for money laundering? Use a ton of bot accounts to buy blue ✔️?
Forgive me if I don’t know how money laundering works, but how do you get the money back out of Twitter in this scenario?
It only makes sense if it was Twitter’s dirty money being cleaned.
Make a botnet that uses money to be laundered to purchase twit blue 1x each, then hide checkmark status so a difference can’t be seen.
Harvest money through Twitter profit
I wasnt aware they had a Rev share program. Yeah I guess if you can extract close to the check mark price it could work
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That’s great news
Next stop: Buy Twitter blue hide functionality for the low price of 5 dollar per month…
