Oops! Elon Musk has whisked total “comments” power from verified or blue tick users on X.
As a result of a new feature on X, “blue checks” may no longer dominate reply threads on X.
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of criticism regarding how Elon Musk changed the blue check.
The blue checkmark was previously used to verify the authenticity of notable users when the platform was known as Twitter.
Under Musk, X now doles out blue checks to anyone who pays $8 per month for X Premium.
In addition, blue check subscribers were given priority in the mentions of posts.
As a result, X users would often find blue checkmark accounts’ posts sitting at the top of the replies to their own post, even if these replies were completely irrelevant to the conversation.
Here’s how it looks on X for web:
The latter two reply sorting options are pretty straightforward. “Most recent” shows replies in chronological order from newest to oldest.
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“Most liked” shows the replies with most likes first.
Blue check accounts appear to have completely lost any advantage that the paid subscription provided them when selecting either of these two menu options.
It’s unclear exactly how X is determining how to sort posts via the “most relevant” option.
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However, it appears to be the same sorting method as the previous default. Blue checks do still appear to be prioritized in this view.
Also, if many X users prefer to view replies via most liked or most recent, it seems like X Premium subscriber rates could potentially take a hit as one of blue check users paid subscription benefits loses some of its power.
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