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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon wseagar

Differentiate between Twitter Blue and Twitter Blue accounts paid for by Musk

Open pixiekat opened this issue 1 year ago • 8 comments

Since it was revealed that Elon paid for a handful of celebrities Twitter Blue accounts, is there a way to differentiate or hide the badge for them?

So far it's Lebron James, Stephen King, and William Shatner.

See: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23691831/twitter-blue-verified-celebrity-lebron-james-stephen-king

pixiekat avatar Apr 21 '23 14:04 pixiekat

Elon is saying those are the only three.

uclaeamsavino avatar Apr 21 '23 14:04 uclaeamsavino

It doesn't seem possible to differentiate them via the API response, would have to be hardcoded, not sure if that's worth doing.

ghost avatar Apr 22 '23 19:04 ghost

There are now a whole bunch of these as of tonight:

  • https://twitter.com/sanjanacurtis/status/1649906198076968960
  • https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1649911374506590216
  • https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1649902084488142850
  • https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1649884329240141828
  • https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1649899605289566222
  • https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/1649909816209580033
  • https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1649897908056227840
  • https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1649913791445106688

I'm stopping there for now, but I'm sure there'll be more if I keep scrolling

cooljeanius avatar Apr 22 '23 23:04 cooljeanius

Not sure how different this would be to an API but you could just get them from: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/b50d6745298cccd6b1f4697e4ec22103

pixiekat avatar Apr 23 '23 00:04 pixiekat

There is already a project that brings back the legacy verification and also differentiates it from those who have paid for Twitter blue. It is now available on Firefox, and for Chrome, it is still under review

https://github.com/luiserdef/twitter-real-verified

jonamunix avatar Apr 23 '23 05:04 jonamunix

Is this not fixed? I see that LinusTechTips, who Musk gave a Paid checkmark to, now says Verified instead, like it should.

trlkly avatar May 28 '23 02:05 trlkly

This may help: https://twitter.com/titterdaily/status/1662753923478765571

ghost avatar May 28 '23 17:05 ghost

It seems to work as expected in Chrome with v2.0, but Firefox is stuck on v1.6 as mentioned in #109.

orrc avatar Jun 01 '23 14:06 orrc