How to Hide Your Twitter Blue Checkmark on X

If you're subscribed to Twitter Blue but don't want everyone to know, here's how to hide your verified checkmark.

On Twitter, a blue checkmark meant something. On X, it just means that you’ve got $8 per month to shell out. There are some other benefits to having a subscription under the hood, but your reputation might arguably improve if people don’t know you’re paying up.

In what may be a show of humility from X, the company has allowed subscribers to hide the blue check. However, the feature was rolled out with little fanfare, and the option is buried in the settings menus.

Follow these steps to hide the Twitter Blue checkmark from your profile...

From the homepage, select More from the column on the left side of the window, just above the blue Post button. Then, select Blue from the resulting expanded menu. This opens another expanded menu—select Preferences.

This takes you to a whole new window where you can learn more about what Blue has to offer, customize features, and manage your subscription. To hide the blue check, select Early access to select new features. This opens another new window—select Profile customization. In the new menu, select Hide your blue checkmark.

The button further warns you that “some Twitter Blue features could still reveal you have an active subscription”. For example, Blue subscribers can also have NFT profile pictures on X and make longer posts. That could give you away even if your check is gone.

At the time of writing, the feature is still rolling out. The feature is not yet available on the most recent Android app version. So, if you don’t see these options, just check back later or try logging in on a different device.

Why would someone want to hide their blue check? Paying for a subscription isn’t a bad thing, right?

Twitter verification, in addition to helping to prevent fraud, was once a highly sought-after achievement. Once verification became proof of subscription, a lot of people just bought the blue check without accomplishing all of the things that were once required to become verified.

There was a strong pushback, with many saying that selling Twitter verification is a bad idea. Accounts that used to be verified refused to pay for the service and subsequently gave up their blue checks. A lot of accounts that could be verified never saw the point in ponying up the cash because existing credentials still validate them.

For example, MUO doesn’t have a verified account. But, anyone can plainly see that the account has existed for almost twenty years and has over 150,000 followers—so it’s probably not just a bot out to sell you scam coins.

There are reasons to subscribe to Blue other than the checkmark. For example, maybe you don’t care to flash your $8 per month, but you rest easier knowing that you can edit your tweets. There’s no shame in hiding your blue check if you don’t like it. But, there’s probably no shame in leaving it there either.

Is hiding the fact that you pay for Blue any greater sign of emotional security than paying for verification in the first place? Because most of the benefits of Blue show up whether you have the verification or not, there’s not a whole lot of use in trying to hide it. But considering accounts with over one million followers had the new checkmark foisted upon them, not everyone will necessarily want to endorse the product through the blue checkmark.

Jon Jaehnig is a freelance writer/editor interested in exponential technologies. Jon has a BS in Scientific and Technical Communication with a minor in Journalism from Michigan Technological University.