X will no longer allow users to hide their blue checks regardless of whether they have paid for the premium or not. On Thursday, the app began notifying users that “X Premium’s hide your icon feature will be removed soon.”
The change comes unexpectedly shortly after X began to add blue checks to the accounts of “influential” users with at least 2,500 followers who pay a premium subscription. And Elon Musk he suggested this change was meant to be an advantage, some critics, including previously verified users, were not too happy about the blue badge appearing on their account, leading others to suspect that they had actually paid for the subscription.
