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Breaking: Twitter reveals new premium function to hide Blue Checks. [1]

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Date: 2023-04-24  

This is a translation from Der Postillion, a German “news” site comparable to the Onion.

San Francisco (dpo) — Legacy check marks on Twitter are history. Since then, subscribers to the Twitter Blue payment service who spot the new Blue Check in their profiles have increasingly faced ridicule and mockery. To prevent this, Twitter plans to allow Blue subscribers to hide their Blue Check for an additional fee in the future.

"We have received feedback that it is currently anything but easy for many to be a Twitter Blue subscriber," explains a spokesperson for the short message service. "They're often laughed at and thought to be idiots for willingly paying the second richest man in the world eight dollars a month for something that used to be free."

But that's about to change - with the launch of a new premium service called "Twitter Blue Stealth." For a surcharge of another 20 dollars per month, the Blue Check will be automatically hidden and the corresponding account will appear completely ordinary to the outside world, as is known from prominent users who almost through the bank refuse to pay for the Blue Check.

Twitter Blue subscribers welcome the innovation: "I've been waiting for a feature like this," says user AssClown42069, for example. "I use Twitter mostly for the smart political analysis and Elon Musk's funny memes, but lately it just hasn't been fun anymore. I hope with Twitter Blue Stealth I can go back to leaving gloating comments under tweets from goofy wokies like I used to do in the past without everyone laughing at me for my Blue Check."

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