Twitter may be developing a feature that would allow you to hide the blue checkmark you received when subscribing to its Blue service. Alessandro Paluzzi, an app researcher, discovered a page on which the firm is working on a verification settings control panel with the option to "Display or conceal your blue checkmark on your profile."

Given that Twitter hasn't made any announcements about this feature, which looks to be in development, and that the business sometimes takes a long time to deliver features that it has promised, this claim should absolutely be regarded with a grain of salt. I can understand why Twitter may want to include it, though. The blue verified checkmark may make you just as much of a pariah as having an NFT profile image, depending on what page of the website you're on. If a tweet from a Twitter Blue user gains a lot of attention, the comments will probably be full of jokes about how "this mf bought for Twitter," and tools are even available to ban all subscribers. As it now takes a few clicks to determine if you pay for Blue or were validated through the old verification programme, the blue checkmark may soon become an even more obvious sign of your membership status. But, Twitter has stated that it would begin removing those in April. If that occurs, there won't be any ambiguity; blue checks will always refer to Blue memberships.

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Given that you can look at tweets from verified Twitter Blue users, it's difficult to determine if concealing your checkmark will totally protect you. However, Paluzzi's piece doesn't provide any evidence of it, in theory, Twitter may allow you to choose not to appear there as well.

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Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Twitter, argued that adding a checkmark to Blue's posts would give "power to the people" (at least, those willing to pay $7 to $11 a month for the subscription), but the service does have some features that even those who aren't concerned with verification may find appealing. You can modify old postings to fix errors or publish lengthier videos and tweets. The firm has further pledged to give your postings precedence over those of other users and to reduce the number of advertisements you view, albeit those capabilities aren't currently accessible.

Twitter is attempting to make it simpler to earn the checkmark, despite criticism of Blue subscribers from parts of its user base. The firm said in November that new customers would need to wait 90 days before purchasing Blue, perhaps in an effort to stop the onslaught of imitators that appeared as soon as the programme became live. Recently, though, the waiting period was shortened to 30 days.