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Elon Musk Forces Users to Show Their Shameful Blue Checks to The World

April 12, 2024

Maxwell Zeff

Elon Musk is removing the ability for X Premium users to hide their blue checkmarks, once a Twitter status symbol turned into a shameful receipt of payment for boosted posts, according to a notification sent to users on Thursday.Read more…
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Elon Musk Punishes Popular X Users With Blue Checkmarks

April 4, 2024

Maxwell Zeff

Elon Musk reinvented the blue checkmark Wednesday night, regressing to an old Twitter policy where anyone with a certain amount of status gets a check. Now, accounts with more than 2,500 verified subscriber followers automatically received a blue check…
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Musk Yoinks NYTs Gold Checkmark While Threatening Us With Two Subscription Tiers

October 20, 2023

Kevin Hurler

In a continued effort to make a dying platform profitable, Elon Musk unveiled two subscription tiers for X, formerly known as Twitter. At the same time, Musk continues his vendetta against news publishers by stripping The New York Times’ official accou…
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X/Twitter Users Can Now Restrict Replies to People Who Pay Elon Musk

October 10, 2023

Nikki Main

X, formerly called Twitter, now allows users to block unverified accounts from replying to their posts as Elon Musk strives to make paying for a subscription worth the money. The company announced the change in a post on Monday, telling users they “can…
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Snap Is Doing What Twitter Can’t

September 21, 2023

Kevin Hurler

As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the perks of its platform. Snap’s membership service Snapchat+ has reached a whopping 5 million users, which …
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Elon’s Twitter Is Coming for Your Biometric Data and Employment History

August 31, 2023

Kyle Barr

Elon Musk’s big push to make Twitter into an “everything app” like the China-centric WeChat is taking the app down the rabbit hole of dubious data collection. This week, the company modified its privacy policy to include provisions for “Biometric Infor…
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Twitter Gives Verified Users Option to Hide Their Checkmark of Shame

August 2, 2023

Kyle Barr

Twitter—which Elon Musk has desperately tried to convince users is now called “X”—wants users to display their $8 a month blue checkmark prominently on their page. Unfortunately for those who pay up, that checkmark has become a kind of Scarlet Letter a…
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