X Now Lets You Hide Your Blue Check Mark, But There’s a Catch

After the implementation of paid subscription service which expenses $8 (roughly Rs. 660) for a blue verification badge on the microblogging web site, X CEO Elon Musk has launched a brand new function to cover the Blue tick.

According to the Help page of the micro-blogging web site, one of many options reads, “Hide your checkmark: As a subscriber, you can choose to hide your checkmark on your account. The check mark will be hidden on your profile and posts. The checkmark may still appear in some places and some features could still reveal you have an active subscription. Some features may not be available while your checkmark is hidden. We will continue to evolve this feature to make it better for you.”

As per a Mashable report, for subscribers to Twitter Blue, the “Hide your blue checkmark” choice is seen within the “Profile customisation” web page in your Account Settings.

Twitter first launched the blue examine mark system in 2009 to assist customers determine celebrities, politicians, firms, manufacturers, information organizations, and different accounts “of public interest” as real and never impostors or parody accounts. The firm did not beforehand cost for verification.

Musk launched Twitter Blue with the check-mark badge as one of many premium perks inside two weeks of the corporate’s takeover final yr.

On April 1, Twitter eliminated blue ticks from verified accounts, following the implementation of paid subscription service which expenses USD 8 for a blue verification badge on the microblogging web site.

B-town celebrities together with Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Alia Bhatt, politicians CM Yogi Adityanath, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, and cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are amongst those that misplaced their verified blue ticks from their Twitter accounts. But, others obtained the badge again after just a few days.

Notably, on July 24, Twitter changed its recognisable fowl brand with the letter “X” as its new official mark.

Earlier, Musk, additionally the CEO of Tesla, mentioned after sure organisational adjustments, the variety of month-to-month customers of social media web site X, previously often known as Twitter, had hit a “new high.”

He posted a graph of person statistics that indicated the newest depend to be above 540 million.

In the publish, Musk additionally referred to this design as an “interim” one, suggesting that there could also be different brand adjustments sooner or later.

According to a report by US-based tech portal TechCrunch, it is attainable that the social community will not cease altering the emblem. According to Musk, the enterprise would ultimately “bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”