Twitter may be working on a feature that will allow you to hide the blue tick you got by paying for the Blue subscription. A screen found by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi shows that the company is working on a control panel for verification settings, with one of the options being “Show or hide your blue check mark on your profile.”
This report should definitely be taken with a grain of salt, given that it appears to be a feature in development that Twitter hasn’t announced (and that the company is taking a long time to ship things has said they are coming). However, I understand why Twitter would want to add it. Depending on what part of the site you’re on, the blue verified check mark can make you as much of an outcast as having an NFT profile picture. If a tweet from a Twitter Blue user goes viral, the comments are probably filled with memes about how “this mf paid for twitter,” and there are even tools to block anyone who has the subscription.
Soon the blue check may become an even more salient indicator of your subscription status – right now it means you’re paying for Blue or you’ve been verified through the legacy verification tool, and it takes a few clicks to find out which is the case. However, Twitter has said it will start removing it from April. When that happens, the ambiguity is gone – blue ticks mean blue subscriptions.
While Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk suggested Blue’s inclusion of a tick as bringing “power to the people(at least the people willing to shell out $7 to 11 a month for the subscription), the service comes with features that even people who don’t care about verification might find appealing. It allows you to post longer videos and tweets or edit errors from your existing posts. The company has also promised that it will prioritize your posts over other people’s posts and reduce the number of ads you see, though those features aren’t available yet.
