Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi claims that the bird app is testing an option for subscribers to hide their Twitter Blue check mark on their profile pages. This won’t stop paying subscribers from using other premium features like longer tweets, but those who do would be outing themselves as paying to get access to said features.
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) March 21, 2023 From the screenshots shard, this may still require you to provide an official ID of some sort to prove that you’re who you claim to be on the platform. Which seems redundant as you’d have already done that when subscribing in the first place.
And affiliate account verification for $50 each per month pic.twitter.com/hohTPKLKdi — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 3, 2023 For now, there’s no indication of when, or even if, this will actually get rolled out. For now, in comparison, it’s a lot more likely that Twitter will be removing legacy blue check marks. But when it does happen, it makes the purpose of the blue check marks even less clear. And at that point, the only check marks that would mean anything are the gold and grey ones. The former represents businesses, and rumours point to them paying a massive sum of money per month for the privilege. As for the latter, that is reportedly reserved for government bodies and officials. (Source: Alessandro Paluzzi / Twitter)
