Twitter may soon tell users with a free Blue subscription how to cancel it
Twitter users who have had the scarlet letter of a checkmark pinned to their profile against their wishes may soon be able to have it removed. They may soon see a page telling them how to cancel the subscription.
According to researcher Nima Owji, the company is set to add a page to its app that tells affected users they can contact Twitter support to cancel Blue. Twitter no longer has a communications team that can be reached for comment.
#Twitter is adding a page that tells the people with the complimentary Twitter Blue that they can cancel their subscription by contacting support. pic.twitter.com/v7Mqb2A4mt
— Nima Owji (@nima_owji) April 26, 2023
As it had long been promising, Twitter last week finally removed checkmarks from all of the accounts that were verified through the previous system because of their notability if they hadn’t already subscribed to Blue. However, Twitter and its owner Elon Musk added blue checkmarks back to certain accounts anyway, namely ones that belong to celebrities (including some dead folks) or have more than a million users.
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