A few days ago, Twitter finally removed the old blue verification marks. Where previously flagged verified pages of celebrities, politicians and companies, it’s now a sign that only the account holder is subscribed to Twitter Blue. After Musk’s 90-day expiration, the social network removed tags from non-paying accounts. That way, anyone who currently owns them has purchased a subscription. This makes it easier for supporters of the #BlockTheBlue movement.

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According to Travis Browne, an independent researcher who tracks the data, approximately 630,000 users follow Twitter Blue. The campaign against them is in full swing.

99% of blue ticks on Twitter are dead-eyed morons, usually trying to sell you something stupid and expensive, and now they’re willing to pay a monthly fee to boost their dog-shit posts.
– comedian @dril wrote to Mashable journalists to comment on the #BlockTheBlue campaign.

The thing is, the Blue subscription actually promotes its owners, giving benefits like a higher position in calls and conversations. Agreed, paid accounts will likely be the only accounts that make it into the recommendation feed. That way, users will see mostly paying pages in their streams instead of friends they follow but don’t have Twitter Blue. This opens up many opportunities for many stores and scammers who would not hesitate to pay $8 for such an ad to earn even more from you in the future.

Blocking them and encouraging others to do the same collectively is the opposite of what they want. Fun,
– wrote @dril.

So ironic everything from @dril who already has over 1.8 million followers:

• He is a representative of the so-called “Weird Twitter” subculture – this concept applies to Western audiences and combines accounts with very peculiar, sometimes primitive humor, which is simply called “shit”, where the word “shit” literally means “shit”. Probably because of Musk’s love of humor at this level (read more about it here and here) it was precisely this fact that made him put him on some sort of underrated list.
• This list of VIP users was discovered in the code of the social network. There are a total of 35 pages that Musk wants to promote using the algorithm. NBA star LeBron James, President Joe Biden, YouTuber Mr. It included Beast and @dril himself.
• But Musk must choose his “friends” more carefully because both LeBron James and @dril later became the biggest competitors of Twitter Blue and paid verification. The first said he would never pay, so Musk gave him a free subscription. And the latter now says he “actively supports Twitter’s downfall.” “I hope to sabotage their efforts to be profitable, no matter how futile, in the hope that they will eventually close the shop and get us all out of this toilet.””said @dril too by sending memesBlue teak is likened to a toilet.

This whole story about blocking paid users used to be just a joke, but now it has turned into a protest movement within the social network. NBC News reporter Ben Collins is sponsored by Alejandra Caraballo of the Harvard Cyber ​​Law Clinic and numerous other popular Twitter accounts, sharing their plans to block any unfollowers who subscribe to Twitter Blue.

Even a Twitter account was opened for the campaign, @BlockTheBlue, that the social network has already managed to block. In addition, even before Twitter gained access to its paid API, the special utility called The Block List offered its users the service of mass auto-blocking of Blue subscribers. When The Block List collapsed, its creators had reported an impressive 610,677,100 automatic blocks.