Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is at present rebranding to X Blue, now consists of the choice to cover the infamous blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers not too long ago began noticing the “conceal your blue checkmark” choice on the internet and in cell apps, providing the flexibility to cover that they’re paying for Twitter and keep away from memes about how “this mf paid for twitter.”
“The checkmark can be hidden in your profile and posts,” notes a Twitter support article. “The checkmark should seem in some locations and a few options may nonetheless reveal you might have an energetic subscription. Some options is probably not obtainable whereas your checkmark is hidden.”
For those who subscribe to Twitter Blue the service will now add an non-obligatory blue checkmark to your profile with a “verified since” date connected. Legacy verified accounts embrace the date an account was initially verified on Twitter earlier than the Blue subscription system.
Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is at present rebranding the service to X in a bid to create an “the whole lot app” that can probably embrace some type of a funds system sooner or later. The little blue bird disappeared final week, changed with an “interim” X emblem that briefly appeared on prime of Twitter’s San Francisco workplace constructing within the type of an extravagant flashing and strobing X sign. There are nonetheless loads of locations the place X refers to Twitter, and even the X Blue subscription page mentions Twitter Blue loads of occasions.