Twitter Blue subscribers can now disguise their blue checks

Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is at the moment rebranding to X Blue, now contains the choice to cover the infamous blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers lately began noticing the “disguise your blue checkmark” possibility on the internet and in cell apps, providing the flexibility to cover that they’re paying for Twitter and keep away from memes about how “this mf paid for twitter.”

“The checkmark shall be hidden in your profile and posts,” notes a Twitter support article. “The checkmark should still seem in some locations and a few options might nonetheless reveal you could have an energetic subscription. Some options is probably not out there whereas your checkmark is hidden.”

If you happen to subscribe to Twitter Blue the service will now add an non-compulsory blue checkmark to your profile with a “verified since” date connected. Legacy verified accounts embody the date an account was initially verified on Twitter earlier than the Blue subscription system.

Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is at the moment rebranding the service to X in a bid to create an “all the things app” that may possible embody some type of a funds system sooner or later. The little blue bird disappeared final week, changed with an “interim” X brand that briefly appeared on high of Twitter’s San Francisco workplace constructing within the type of an extravagant flashing and strobing X sign. There are nonetheless loads of locations the place X refers to Twitter, and even the X Blue subscription page mentions Twitter Blue loads of instances.