Twitter verification is now only a $8 away away, however that does not imply the social community has democratized its long-standing standing image solely. The Twitter verification badge is now break up between two totally different teams: accounts that have been formally verified for being “notable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category,” and accounts that paid for the checkmark by being subscribed to Twitter Blue. But it may be tough to inform the distinction between the 2 forms of verified accounts with out clicking into their particular person profiles, which is why one Twitter person created a instrument to make it quite a bit simpler.

Introducing Eight Dollars, a easy browser extension that swaps out Twitter’s normal verification badge for 2 totally different labels that spell out if an account is “actually verified” or if it “paid for verification.” Without the extension, you’d must click on on a person’s profile, after which faucet on the verification checkmark to find out if the person’s test was authorized by Twitter workers or bought by Twitter Blue, however Eight Dollars makes that data obtainable instantly in your timeline.

The extension was initially solely obtainable for Chrome, however New Zealand designer Walter Lim says it ought to work with Microsoft Edge in addition to Firefox, and he is additionally added Safari to his to-do record. Installing any of them will take just a little additional work: the add-on is presently only available on GitHub, and must be put in manually utilizing the browser’s developer mode. Even so, it could possibly be definitely worth the effort — except you want being fooled by hackneyed rip-off accounts and impersonators.