twitter blue subscribers can now hide the entire reason they spent money on it in the first place
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
Oh I see, the blue checks have become a direct competition to bot farms. I think I’d rather give the money to a bunch of soulless machines than a soulless human.
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
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
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.
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Do blue checks not see ads? I agree, when a service is subscription/donation only, it’s way better. But if any part of the business model is ad based, it’s shit, and paying to hide them won’t make it any better.
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What’s the difference between paying to get your tweets seen and paying to get your tweets seen?
I fucking love how news outlets refuse to acknowledge the new name.
I am all in on only referring to it as Twitter.
I’ve taken to calling it “The service formerly known as Twitter.”
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.
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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.
If you want to hide something it implies that there is shame in it.
I would assume that’s because, at least partially, because there’s an abundance of addons which automatically block blue checks.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t also give them more weight in the algorithm. Any time you load a thread with more than a few comments, there’s like 5 trolls on top with bullshit comments.
There are other reasons too.
I’m not ashamed of being moderator on a online forum but I don’t want it to show next to my name when I’m not moderating.
I’m also not ashamed that my truck is a 4x4 but I still don’t want the badge on my tailgate.
Not necessarily
So I guess now you can get your tweets pushed without disclosing that you payed for it…?
That’s a bingo
Ah that makes more sense.
That must be the true reason behind this move
Is this actually legal?
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.
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).
How would that be illegal? What law in which country would have anything to do with how a privately owned company handles that?
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.
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.
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.
If you’re still on Twitter, you’re part of the problem.
Couldn’t agree more.
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?
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?
Twitter checks are the new MAGA hats.
So u basically hiding something that u paid to show off in the first place (•_•)
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!
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.
Whats hilarious is none of the news outlets are calling it X. Everyone is still calling it Twitter.
I bet Elon is raging 🤣
And so the clown car has made its first full rotation…
So they can hide their stupidity?
