X (Twitter) will no longer allow you to hide if you have paid for verified

If you are one of the many who pay for X Premiumbut you don’t want a verified badge on your profile, here’s some bad news: X (Twitter) won’t let you hide it anymore.. The social network began informing subscribers of its paid version about this decision.

The cause of this problem is still unclear. The news comes after X Premium – formerly Twitter Blue – users began receiving notifications that the feature would no longer exist.

Journalist Ben Goggin from NBCNewsgeneral screenshot short message that affected accounts receive. “Hide your brand feature [de verificado] X Premium is going away soon. Click here to manage X Premium features,” the post reads.

At the time of writing this article Elon Musk It did not comment on this decision and did not officially announce what motivated it. A priori, this would seem to be one of the many arbitrary decisions that have been made at X (Twitter) since the tycoon took power. But we will have to wait for the official voice if anything is actually said about this.

The ability to hide X’s verified status (Twitter) lasted less than a year

Option hide payment confirmation on X (Twitter) was introduced in early August last year. This came at a time when the platform was going through some very difficult times following the launch of a new version of what was then called Twitter Blue.

Constant changes to the social network’s verification system have led to chaos, with several cases of falsified profiles promoting scams or spreading fake news. This led to the introduction of blue badges for general accounts, gold badges for companies and organizations, and gray badges for government employees.

Although the most noticeable modification occurred when Elon Musk removed the blue confirmation check mark from all accounts heritage. That is, individuals, companies and others who received it without payment through Twitter’s old verification system.

This revealed everyone who was subscribed to the paid version of Twitter, which had not yet changed its name to X. If you were marked “Verified”, you had paid to use the social network. And it didn’t take long to become another excuse feed toxicity. meme This man paid for Twitter (That bastard paid for Twitter) started popping up all the time when it came to discrediting posts or replies from anyone with a blue badge on their profile.

So, the fact that accounts that paid to subscribe to X (Twitter) could hide the verification mark was kind of patch try to find a solution to this problem. It remains to be seen whether Elon Musk or his company will explain why they decided to remove this feature. Maybe we are used to seeing so many verified accounts on social networks that this is no longer necessary? Or will this be another strategy to make X Premium subscribers visible and entice other users to join?

Elon is now giving away verified

Let’s not forget that X (Twitter) started give a verified mark to accounts that do not pay for X Premium. Those with at least 2,500 verified subscribers will receive a blue tick and other features of this subscription. And those with more than 5,000 verified subscribers will receive a badge and all the features of X Premium+, the most expensive subscription that provides access to the Grok chatbot.

It is assumed that the number of subscribers for the paid version of X (Twitter) is far from what Elon Musk wanted. That’s why it will try to implement its features into profiles that are not willing to pay. promote it and encourage others to join. It is unclear whether this initiative will bear fruit.