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kheina-com / Blue-Blocker

Blocks all Twitter Blue verified users on twitter.com
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Legacy bluechecks are returning #241

Open cooljeanius opened 4 months ago

cooljeanius commented 4 months ago

See: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/x-blue-check-influential-users-twitter/ This will probably require special handling in Blue-Blocker.

cjshrader commented 4 months ago

I'd be surprised if this is possible to handle, because I don't think the information Blue Blocker looks at can check followers. I honestly think this is a move specifically to get people like us to turn these addons off since now they are going to catch a lot of "strays"

kheina commented 4 months ago

I think that the existing tools in blue blocker will handle this just file (follower threshold + legacy db) though, we may want to change the default threshold value from 1mil to something more reasonable like 10k or something in prep for this https://github.com/kheina-com/Blue-Blocker/blob/8aff16c54eef03d1f762fa7833bec3e96deaf403/src/constants.ts#L36

cjshrader commented 4 months ago

I'm mostly discussing the situation where if someone has 2500+ blue followers, they get blue for free. I'm not sure how blue blocker will dig in and figure that out. I'd prefer not to block those people as they are not paying for blue, but I also think there's not much way around it.