There are two types of blue check marks on Twitter right now. One is reserved for celebrities and reporters, which may be going away once the next month rolls around. The other signifies that an account owner is a paying Twitter Blue subscriber. This is often a way to get grief on the platform, especially when such an account posts a hot take on any given subject. Soon, it looks like subscribers will get the option to hide the check mark, therefore giving them one less way to have their opinions dismissed entirely based on that fact.
Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi claims that the bird app is testing an option for subscribers to hide their Twitter Blue check mark on their profile pages. This won’t stop paying subscribers from using other premium features like longer tweets, but those who do would be outing themselves as paying to get access to said features.
#Twitter keeps working on the ability to control everything related to account verification and identity by adding the option to show or hide your blue checkmark on your profile 👀 pic.twitter.com/6uTjBON21N
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) March 21, 2023
From the screenshots shard, this may still require you to provide an official ID of some sort to prove that you’re who you claim to be on the platform. Which seems redundant as you’d have already done that when subscribing in the first place.
Twitter is reportedly emailing businesses offering gold check mark verification for $1000 PER MONTH!
And affiliate account verification for $50 each per month pic.twitter.com/hohTPKLKdi
— Matt Navarra (I quit X. Follow me on Threads) (@MattNavarra) February 3, 2023
For now, there’s no indication of when, or even if, this will actually get rolled out. For now, in comparison, it’s a lot more likely that Twitter will be removing legacy blue check marks. But when it does happen, it makes the purpose of the blue check marks even less clear. And at that point, the only check marks that would mean anything are the gold and grey ones. The former represents businesses, and rumours point to them paying a massive sum of money per month for the privilege. As for the latter, that is reportedly reserved for government bodies and officials.
(Source: Alessandro Paluzzi / Twitter)
