Thanks to a new feature, “blue checks” may no longer dominate reply threads on X.
There has been a lot of criticism over the past few years regarding how Elon Musk changed the blue check. The blue checkmark was previously used to verify the authenticity of notable users when the platform was known as Twitter. Under Musk, X now doles out blue checks to anyone who pays $8 per month for X Premium. On top of that, blue check subscribers were given priority in the mentions of posts.
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As a result, X users would often find blue checkmark accounts’ posts sitting at the top of the replies to their own post, even if these replies were completely irrelevant to the conversation.
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