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Add option to ignore accounts that restored their blue check by the "put blue check in profile comment" trick #56

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cooljeanius opened this issue May 1, 2023 · 4 comments
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Apparently if you put the words "blue check" in your profile comment, you can restore your legacy blue check without paying for Twitter Blue: https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1653084206631714816
I have seen several other accounts saying this as well. It might only be for accounts that previously had a legacy blue check, though? (I'm unable to test for myself to verify, though, since Twitter doesn't want to seem to save any edits I make to my profile lately...)

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kheina commented May 2, 2023

I'll keep an eye on this, I hadn't seen this before so I have no idea if its true or how true it is. if you can verify this at all though please let me know!

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Suspect you are describing one or both of the following:

  1. Something associated with an update to the 8 dollars plugin that recently restored functionality Fix issues with legacy verification list wseagar/eight-dollars#108

  2. Typing blue check 'restored' the blue check in the legacy verified user's personal view only, everyone else saw whatever their version of twitter let them see. I've seen a couple reports of it being patched yesterday, and I don't think it creates a new case (I believe the inside baseball here is that they can't really get rid of the legacy verified spreadsheet for Algoreasons and they may no longer have the ability/permissions to yank it.)
    2023-05-02 18_43_15-type blue check - Twitter Search _ Twitter — Mozilla Firefox

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cooljeanius commented May 3, 2023

Suspect you are describing one or both of the following:

  1. Something associated with an update to the 8 dollars plugin that recently restored functionality Fix issues with legacy verification list wseagar/eight-dollars#108

oh I actually stopped using eight-dollars after someone linked me to twitter-real-verified in wseagar/eight-dollars#104, so now I use that instead

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kheina commented May 19, 2023

Typing blue check 'restored' the blue check in the legacy verified user's personal view only

@kheina kheina closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale May 19, 2023
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