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

[pixiekat]

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

[uclaeamsavino]

Elon is saying those are the only three.

[ghost]

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

[cooljeanius]

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

[pixiekat]

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

[jonamunix]

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

[trlkly]

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

[ghost]

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

[orrc]

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

[cooljeanius]

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

luiserdef/twitter-real-verified

Thanks, I switched to using this instead, and it's been working pretty well for me.