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X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] youngalfred@lemm.ee 59 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Iirc just recently they started giving out blue ticks to people with lots of followers, regardless of if they wanted it. Then this week they make it so you can't hide them. It seems like a dim move - piss off the people who bring lots of traffic to your website, but actively decided to not get a blue tick, by forcing the tick on them.
If they didn't leave beforehand, maybe this would make some people/orgs consider leaving?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He’s been forcing blue checks on people since the initial change - with Stephen King, for instance. Basically a way to promote the program and make it look like prominent people are paying, but also a confused mix with the previous verification checks.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It really does seem like he's -trying- to kill it