{"id":502826,"date":"2023-08-02T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=502826"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T08:11:54","slug":"twitter-lets-paid-users-hide-their-checkmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/502826-twitter-lets-paid-users-hide-their-checkmark.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter lets paid users hide their checkmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter Blue \u2014 now XBlue \u2014 subscribers can opt to hide their blue verification checkmarks, an update to the company’s help page<\/a><\/strong> for the paid subscription has revealed.<\/p>\n

This will supposedly let users benefit from the paid subscription’s features without letting others know they have a verified account.<\/p>\n

However, the company warns that the checkmark will still appear in some places even when hidden on someone’s profile.<\/p>\n

“As a subscriber, you can choose to hide your checkmark on your account. The check mark will be hidden on your profile and posts,” the page reads.<\/p>\n

“The checkmark may still appear in some places, and some features could still reveal you have an active subscription.”<\/p>\n

It adds that while it will continue to tweak the feature, some of the XBlue subscription’s benefits will be unavailable while the checkmark is hidden.<\/p>\n

Benefits of the XBlue subscription include longer Tweets, bookmark folders, custom app icons, themes, and SMS verification.<\/p>\n

The subscription launched in South Africa<\/a><\/strong> in March 2023, with a monthly price ranging from R145 to R200.<\/p>\n

Those who sign up for the web version of the subscription pay R145 per month, while those on Android and iOS pay R200 monthly.<\/p>\n

Annual subscriptions are also available at R1,519 for web users and R2,099 for Android and iOS users.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Facebook and Instagram begin blocking news in Canada<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

However, the company warned that hidden checkmarks might still show on some parts of the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":483521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[405,78182,88302,41650,88300],"class_list":["post-502826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-blue","tag-verification-checkmark","tag-x","tag-xblue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502872,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502826\/revisions\/502872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}