I can’t figure out why he wants users to hide it??
Because people who have it were mocked and then cried to Elon about it
Cucked behavior if you’re gonna pay Elon musk you need to wear that shame
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The only reason I still go to Twitter is to mock people for giving a billionaire a monthly fee to use a free website.
Now why would they want to do that, seems odd. Wouldnt they want to show they are supporting the free speech (their CEO says this is the case) platform, what would it gain you to hide this badge?
https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/281834/Twitter-Blue-subscribers-can-now-hide-their-blue-checks#entry-comment-1290301
(https://kbin.social/u/countsickness)[countsickness] So I guess now you can get your tweets pushed without disclosing that you payed for it…?Again this still feels like they are dishonestly trying to achieve something. Is there another app out there like this that allows this kind of option?
I believe you get some premium features along with the subscribtion which probably is the main reason people are paying for it though I’m sure some just want the blue tick too.
why hide it in this case then, you got your features (some seem to think that being able to push their messages and have them at the top is the one a lot are going for that want to have the blue tick removed) what would be your reason to be like I dont need people to see that.
You get to keep the premium features even if you hide the blue checkmark. There’s no downside to it.
Then you are saying there is an upside to it. Why would hiding that your posts are promoted and your comments come first has an upside if you wernt trying to game some system?
No, I said there’s no downside to it.
This is hilarious. Thank God I never made an account on that cesspool.
I was either on my last slide phone or my first smart phone when Twitter came out and Facebook was beginning it’s ascent to late 2000s domination.
From the beginning, I thought the concept of effectively posting text messages on this new Twitter thing made no sense at all, so I never bothered making an account.
However many years later, I’m super glad I thought Twitter v1.0 was so silly.
You mean you didn’t want to spend 10-20 cents per tweet and per reply to you and from you to share 140 characters a pop to the internet?
Glad I wasn’t the only one.
Shit never made sense to me either.
I was head of an IT department at the time and distinctly remember telling everyone in a team meeting that this “micro-blogging” was pointless, going nowhere and we should ignore it. Wrong!
Think the only thing you were wrong about was “going nowhere”.
Unfortunately a lot of people like doing pointless things that they should ignore.
twitter blue subscribers can now hide the entire reason they spent money on it in the first place
They’re probably tired of the harassment they’re getting for paying for it. A lot of the blue check tweets I’ve seen have a comment section mocking and berating them. I think it’s a shame they get to hide it. If they paid for it they should deal with the harassment that goes with it.
Seems like they’re getting the “freedom of speech” they paid for.
I personally think subscribtion model is better than ads so mocking these people seems kinda odd
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they see “half” ads >_>
no joke
Well that’s incredibly stupid. Removing ads is usually the reason I’m paying for a service. Ironic that I as a non-paying user see less ads than the ones that are paying for it.
Imagine paying and still seeing ads… smh
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What’s the difference between paying to get your tweets seen and paying to get your tweets seen?
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I agree with this sentiment but I think the real issue with this change is that Twitter Blue subscribers get their content’s visibility boosted. Without the blue checkmark visible, it’s impossible to tell who had their content boosted through organic engagement, and who paid for it
The Twitter Blue subscribers are not getting mocked for paying to remove ads. They are mocked for paying money to have their voices cary more weight. And they are paying that money to a company that as of late has supported CSAM, racism, and vaccine disinformation.
Right. And now, going into an election year where misinformation is growing in weight and volume, we will have no idea who’s artificially boosting their content.
Also, it means that every single breaking news tweet, who are you going to see first? All the dick riders who paid for Blue, which slants a very particular demographic’s way.
2024 is going to be a nightmare.
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
Knowing how well Twitter is being maintained, there’s likely going to be something left in the code to give Blue people away
And if so, the blocker I have on PC will find them and block them still.
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
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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
I fucking love how news outlets refuse to acknowledge the new name.
I am all in on only referring to it as Twitter.
ex twitter
I personally am not willing to gloss over the stupidity of Musk and fix his mistakes. I am calling it X and Xers just to emphasize how stupid he is.
Xitter
Pronounced as in portuguese (sh)
Chinese too!
I’ve taken to calling it “The service formerly known as Twitter.”
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Nah just disrespect the whole sham.
Call it Twitter. Call them tweets.
Nobody calls Facebook “Meta”.
People call the company that owns Facebook Meta all the time. Facebook is still called Facebook because they didn’t change Facebook to Meta, they changed The Facebook Company to Meta.
Technically Facebook is still called Facebook, it’s the parent company (IE who owns everything and who is listed on the stock market) that’s now named Meta. However it’s a similar situation to Google and the parent company Alphabet, No one calls google or google connected products Alphabet products because it’s not meant to be what you refer to it as.
So I guess now you can get your tweets pushed without disclosing that you payed for it…?
They’re Xes, not tweets.
Ah that makes more sense.
That must be the true reason behind this move
That’s a bingo
“We just say bingo”
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How would that be illegal? What law in which country would have anything to do with how a privately owned company handles that?
I am asking myself the same thing. But unless it’s actually advertising I guess the answer is yes.
Might get interesting with twitter gold or whatever color the brand checkmate is.
Why were you asking yourself that. How would it possibly be illegal?
Twitter can do whatever the hell they want on their own website. They have no obligation to be fair in whatever they decide to boost or hide (with the exception of outright illegal content, obviously).
Whats hilarious is none of the news outlets are calling it X. Everyone is still calling it Twitter.
I bet Elon is raging 🤣
I like how Elon X is destroying (t)his company. He does it in the probably most embarassing way possible, ditching his own credibility. Nice!
Twitter checks are the new MAGA hats.
And so the clown car has made its first full rotation…
You know your paid model is going well when you feel the need to give people the option to hide the fact they’re paying.
I don’t quite see your logic here. You think Lemmy should add a “Donator” -tag that you can’t hide to everyone who gives money to the developers?
Bruh.
Good explanation. I changed my mind now
Anyways glad to help.
If you’re still on Twitter, you’re part of the problem.
Nah, the whole problem is that we don’t have any say on the sort of train wreck it’s becoming for regular users and the creators that we follow. As much as I could just leave, that doesn’t help the people I got there to support to begin with.
What’s the problem?
Some people talk of it as if it’s a matter of principles. That even remaining as a free user in an unprofitable platform is making it pay off, like Elon Musk wins as long as people stay there, as if it was solely about Elon’s pride and not the millions of people who still use it for community or professionally.
Seems like a variant of that generalized disdain that a lot of people have for social media they don’t use.
It’s one thing to promote the Fediverse, it’s another to say that whoever doesn’t immediately move over is to blame for everything bad being inflicted on them, which is reductive to say the least.
Yeah I think the average twitter hater under-estimates how different a well curated twitter feed can be from someone who just randomly follows hundreds if not thousands of random people and they over-estimate how big role Elon plays in it. I don’t go check my twitter feed because I want to actively support what ever Musk is doing. I was there already when hardly anyone had heard about him.
If he makes some changes that dramatically affect my user experience then I might consider leaving like I did from reddit after more than 10 years of daily use but so far he havent. My twitter experience is exactly the same as it was 5 years ago.
Seems like a variant of that generalized disdain that a lot of people have for social media they don’t use.
Yeah, it’s really annoying to see other people do that. I’m guilty of the same kind of thinking, but I mostly keep it to myself.
Couldn’t agree more.
