Final yr, Elon Musk-owned social community X rolled out a feature for paid users to hide their checkmarks from others. Now, the corporate is sending notifications to customers saying that the characteristic will go away quickly.
Identical to loads of choices taken by X, there isn’t a particular timeline as to when the disguise your checkmark characteristic will go away.
Final week, the corporate eliminated the part describing disguise the checkmark characteristic from the X Premium assist web page earlier than sending notifications to customers. The characteristic wasn’t obtainable to the essential tier of subscribers.
“As a Premium or Premium+ subscriber, you can choose to hide your checkmark on your account. The checkmark will be hidden on your profile and posts. The checkmark may still appear in some places, and some features could still reveal that you have an active subscription,” the outline learn.
Earlier this month, the social community started handing out blue checkmarks to influential users with greater than 2,500 “verified” followers. The corporate additionally began providing its Premium subscription to those customers and Premium+ subscription to customers with greater than 5,000 verified followers.
Final yr, Musk eliminated the legacy verification checkmark after introducing a subscription program for it. Nevertheless, the corporate quickly reinstated the blue checkmark for top accounts. Primarily, the verification program is headed again to the place it began — verifying notable folks.
