I never thought Twitter would let you hide your Blue checkmark out of shame

One of the first things Elon Musk broke at Twitter after he acquired the social network was the service's Blue checkmark verification system. Musk thought Twitter could make money from selling Twitter Blue subscriptions, even if that meant ruining the entire purpose of the checkmark.

Musk had to go through a botched launch of Twitter Blue as people started impersonating businesses online, which is a twist I saw coming. What I didn't see coming was Twitter (now X) rolling out a Twitter Blue (now X Blue) feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark out of shame.

Rumors said Twitter was working on it, but it seemed ridiculous at the time. The feature is rolling out now, and I still can't believe it.

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