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Allisa James

Twitter's Blue Ticks are now so toxic that paid users can choose to hide them

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Twitter – now rebranded as X by owner and ex-CEO Elon Musk – is pushing out a change to its Twitter Blue verification checkmark feature for paid subscribers, and it's one that trivializes the entire purpose of Twitter Blue in the first place.

The social media giant, if you can still call it that, updated its ‘About Twitter Blue’ page with details on how paid users can hide their blue verification checkmarks. 

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