This comes a few days later. Twitter announced that legacy verified accounts will lose their blue check mark starting April 1 unless they sign up for Twitter Blue payment. At the same time, Twitter is working on a way for paid subscribers to hide your blue checkspresumably because it can seem embarrassing to have one if all it means is that you’ve paid for it.
Both of these changes together may generate more subscribers (Twitter hopes), but they also guarantee that the For You page becomes an orgy of hucksters, assholes, and anyone else who wants to pay for Twitter. Oh, and brands. By limiting amplification to only a small number of paid users, the For You page is much more open and brands can get much more traction and amplification on a free tweet by simply paying for Blue instead of buying ads.
Normal, unpaid accounts will presumably only be visible in the follow feed, the chronological feed of only the people you follow (basically what Twitter used to be).
