“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 😂
Everyone of those twitter blue people has acted like an arsehole in my experience. People who you’ve had no interaction with suddenly come into your replies having a pop.
Who would’ve known that people who like Musk are assholes?
/s
He’s like Trump. No matter how bad he acts, how much he fails, there are people who seem to still love him. I mean, he’s not some sick puppy. He’s a twice bailed out businessman.
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.
Why are you musk obsessed that you even made a community for him
Block the community if you don’t want to see it.
I’d understand complaining about musk posts bombarding a more general community, but this one did you the favor of putting a bunch in one place for you to ignore.
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Not OP, but I’m pissed that I lost a platform that had utility to me because some random billionaire made a weed joke.
“Why do you care what the richest man in the world is doing with the most popular social media platform?”
Listen to yourself.
Another genius move from business genius.
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.
I love the idea that they’d charge extra for hiding!
You know the saying a fool and his money
Next stop: Buy Twitter blue hide functionality for the low price of 5 dollar per month…
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What makes you assume it’s the “alt righters”?
Edit: Answer the question. Downvoting me does nothing, you fools.
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
steps in shit
“Hey it smells like you stepped in shit.”
“What makes you assume it’s shit?”
If it shits like a shit, it’s a shit.
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.
In other news, Tesla is now selling Toyota Camry body conversion kits for the Model S.
Fuck me, I wish
I see that as a win, the blue check mark had become a source of elitism and snobbery that wasn’t given out for consistent reasons.
So you just follow Twitter’s example and stop paying for it.
The twitter checkmark was a sign of embarrassment long before elon bought the company
At least you knew a company was the legit account if you needed to contact them.
Why would you contact them through twitter?
Not so much that, more for how many fake websites there are out there. So you’d go to the socials to get a verified link to the right website before a purchase, query or sub etc. Some companies do respond via twitter and consider it part of their customer service toolkit
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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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 media equivalent of that with
TwitterX Blue.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?
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
It only makes sense if it was Twitter’s dirty money being cleaned.
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That’s great news
