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https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/281834/Twitter-Blue-subscribers-can-now-hide-their-blue-checks#entry-comment-1290301
this comment has quite a reasonable explanation. Your posts are boosted without you disclosing you paid for it.
68 points
Well that sounds terrible. At least with the blue logo you can just hide or block their posts to get to the organic engagement.
31 points
yeah, seems like now it will be very difficult to weed them out… just another reason to go away from twitter
10 points
Knowing how well Twitter is being maintained, there’s likely going to be something left in the code to give Blue people away
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