Twitter Blue subscribers can now cover their blue checks

Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is at the moment rebranding to X Blue, now consists of the choice to cover the infamous blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers just lately began noticing the “cover your blue checkmark” possibility on the internet and in cellular apps, providing the flexibility to cover that they’re paying for Twitter and keep away from memes about how “this mf paid for twitter.”

“The checkmark will likely be hidden in your profile and posts,” notes a Twitter help article. “The checkmark should still seem in some locations and a few options may nonetheless reveal you have got an energetic subscription. Some options will not be out there whereas your checkmark is hidden.”

The brand new cover blue checkmark possibility. Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge

In case you subscribe to Twitter Blue the service will now add an non-obligatory blue checkmark to your profile with a “verified since” date hooked up. Legacy verified accounts embody the date an account was initially verified on Twitter earlier than the Blue subscription system.

Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is at the moment rebranding the service to X in a bid to create an “the whole lot app” that can seemingly embody some type of a funds system sooner or later. The little blue chicken disappeared final week, changed with an “interim” X emblem that briefly appeared on high of Twitter’s San Francisco workplace constructing within the type of an extravagant flashing and strobing X signal. There are nonetheless loads of locations the place X refers to Twitter, and even the X Blue subscription web page mentions Twitter Blue loads of occasions.