The first is to make sure you’re using the Following tab instead of For You. This tab is just tweets from people you follow, so it’s not artificially prioritizing Twitter Blue subscribers. You can also try block all retweets if you want to clean things up a bit more.
If it’s still not enough, you can try TweetDeck, Twitter version of proficient users. This tool does not have a For You page or any algorithmic sorting, which means Twitter Blue users are not artificially boosted on it. TweetDeck is a part of Twitter that is completely unaffected by the recent changes there, and I hope this does not change. (So don’t let anyone tell Elon Musk that TweetDeck still exists.)
Another cool extension, if you don’t see the old checkmarks, is eight dollars. Currently, the blue check mark only shows if someone is paying Blue, meaning most people who had a check mark before April 20, 2023 are no longer available. Eight Dollars can tell you which users were verified before the old verified checkmarks were removed, which is useful if you trust the old system.
Of course, there’s a cat and mouse element to all of this. Twitter’s current mode really, really wants to turn Blue checkmarks into marketable status icons, and any tool that reduces the visibility of Blue subscribers will cut that target. They will try to find a way to circumvent this and all the stuff like that. For now, though, they still work—use them when you can.
Or you can give up your Twitter account, set up a public archive of your tweetsand learn how start on Mastodon or Blue sky. Up to you.
