StoicLime@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTwitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checkswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1667arrow-down139
arrow-up1628arrow-down1external-linkTwitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checkswww.theverge.comStoicLime@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square115fedilink
minus-squareHovenko@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up101arrow-down1·1 year agohttps://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/281834/Twitter-Blue-subscribers-can-now-hide-their-blue-checks#entry-comment-1290301 this comment has quite a reasonable explanation. Your posts are boosted without you disclosing you paid for it.
minus-squareTwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60·1 year agoWell that sounds terrible. At least with the blue logo you can just hide or block their posts to get to the organic engagement.
minus-squareZEEEPh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoyeah, seems like now it will be very difficult to weed them out… just another reason to go away from twitter
minus-squareGnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agowell that explains why whenever i look at a tweet i have to scroll past all the top comments which are inevitably the stupidest ones
minus-squarebitsplease@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoAlso it let’s Elon pretend that more people are subbed than really are. We know he likes to inflate the perception of whose willing to pay for it after he gave out a bunch of free checks to celebrities who refused to sign up
https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/281834/Twitter-Blue-subscribers-can-now-hide-their-blue-checks#entry-comment-1290301
this comment has quite a reasonable explanation. Your posts are boosted without you disclosing you paid for it.
Well that sounds terrible. At least with the blue logo you can just hide or block their posts to get to the organic engagement.
yeah, seems like now it will be very difficult to weed them out… just another reason to go away from twitter
well that explains why whenever i look at a tweet i have to scroll past all the top comments which are inevitably the stupidest ones
Also it let’s Elon pretend that more people are subbed than really are. We know he likes to inflate the perception of whose willing to pay for it after he gave out a bunch of free checks to celebrities who refused to sign up
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