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Ask HN: Is Twitter blue check worthless to you now?
> Starting April 1, we’ll be winding down our legacy Verification program and accounts that were verified under the previous criteria (active, notable, and authentic) will not retain a blue checkmark unless they are subscribed to Twitter Blue.
So now it's mostly just a sign for who has subscribed to Twitter? What about an "authentic" account that won't pay?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- MattGaiser 3y agoAt this point I view it as mostly a political signal more than anything else.
- uberman 3y agoIs a blue check worthless? It might gate keep your message out of the top promoted messages and for some I'm sure that is an important consideration. For me, it is an anti pattern that shows your were desperate or stupid enough to pay for one. It's like and NFT but somehow even more worthless.
- bediger4000 3y agoI view it as virtue signaling. None of the really funny accounts, Dril, Everett Byram, that Italian Elon Musk guy, ever had checks anyway.
- bombcar 3y agoAlways has been. /ohio
- AHOHA 3y agoAll social media and “content creators” and other BS is worthless to me, blue mark or bot won’t change that.
- bdangubic 3y agoI would gladly pay the monthly fee to get the features (edit, long tweets…) if I could NOT have blue checkmark. would pay extra $5/month for it
- jlpcsl 3y agoThe entire Twitter is worthless to me. I am all on Mastodon now.