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wseagar / eight-dollars

A browser extension that shows twitter blue vs real verified users
MIT License
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Differentiate between Twitter Blue and Twitter Blue accounts paid for by Musk #104

Open pixiekat opened 1 year ago

pixiekat commented 1 year ago

Since it was revealed that Elon paid for a handful of celebrities Twitter Blue accounts, is there a way to differentiate or hide the badge for them?

So far it's Lebron James, Stephen King, and William Shatner.

See: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23691831/twitter-blue-verified-celebrity-lebron-james-stephen-king

uclaeamsavino commented 1 year ago

Elon is saying those are the only three.

ghost commented 1 year ago

It doesn't seem possible to differentiate them via the API response, would have to be hardcoded, not sure if that's worth doing.

cooljeanius commented 1 year ago

There are now a whole bunch of these as of tonight:

I'm stopping there for now, but I'm sure there'll be more if I keep scrolling

pixiekat commented 1 year ago

Not sure how different this would be to an API but you could just get them from: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/b50d6745298cccd6b1f4697e4ec22103

jonamunix commented 1 year ago

There is already a project that brings back the legacy verification and also differentiates it from those who have paid for Twitter blue. It is now available on Firefox, and for Chrome, it is still under review

https://github.com/luiserdef/twitter-real-verified

trlkly commented 1 year ago

Is this not fixed? I see that LinusTechTips, who Musk gave a Paid checkmark to, now says Verified instead, like it should.

ghost commented 1 year ago

This may help: https://twitter.com/titterdaily/status/1662753923478765571

orrc commented 1 year ago

It seems to work as expected in Chrome with v2.0, but Firefox is stuck on v1.6 as mentioned in #109.