Here’s how to hide your blue Twitter checkmark if you’re embarrassed about paying

Instead of flaunting the once-coveted verification badge, some Twitter users would now prefer to keep it on the down low.

When Elon Musk rolled out the new Twitter Blue last year, his impetus behind it was that people’s vanity may lead them to pay a monthly fee for a blue verification checkmark, which at that point was still coveted. Unfortunately for Musk, once you could pay for a blue check, it lost its internet street cred. Soon a Twitter Blue checkmark became a scarlet letter attracting ridicule and scorn.

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