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Blocking Twitter blue users will be hard to do as Elon continue to force Twitter blue on high-follower accounts who refuse to pay for it themselves

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Blocking very high follower accounts is itself a useful thing to do to improve your Twitter experience.

Doesn't the API still disclose who is a legacy check vs who bought their check? I recall that being the case and seeing a browser addon that would udpdate the checkmark the last few times I used the bird site.

That's gone now.

We still have the list of legacy verified users. Off site. So it's technically possible.

Sure but that would only work for users that existed with a blue checkmark last year. What about all the new creators and news sources?

I get the intention of this, to try and claw back some usability of Twitter. I say let it be. Spend these dev hours working on a new platform or working on open source protocols so this type of mass takeover doesn't happen again on the whim of a billionaire.

I just checked and it isn't gone. The only thing changed is aesthetic / front end.

Docs say it's just `verified` now, with no distinction in v2. Where should I be looking?

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