The Faded Value of Twitter (yes X) Blue Checkmark and Why I Cancelled My Subscription

From April 2026, the blue check on my name will disappear on Twitter (yes X). I have canceled the subscription because, to me, it no longer carries real value.

I did not study Economics in secondary school, not because I did not want to, but because WAEC capped subjects at nine, and I had chosen Further Mathematics which was the pair according to my principal, legendary Mr. Ogbonnia (RIP).

So, I took the extra mile: while still in school, I sat for GCE to clear the subjects I could not fit in. Economics was one of them, and I still remember learning demand from OA Lawal’s textbook. One simple lesson was there: some types of value could be anchored on scarcity and meaning.

So I ask: why should I pay for a checkmark to be “verified” when unverifiable-entities, and sometimes unreal accounts can buy the same badge? When “unverifiable” can be verified for a fee, verification loses its meaning. Some people comment here and I hope they cannot discover my feed. And the painful thing is that some of these unreal accounts are verified! Why must you verify “I am not NAME” when the same person has declared that he or she is not the central bank governor?

Good People, the moment X turned verification into a commodity, it destroyed the very value that checkmark was meant to signal. And I do not like wasting money.

So when the current subscription expires in April, the checkmark will go. It changes nothing for me, even if it means fewer people reading my posts. I do not write to be read; I write to be liberated. And even if no one reads, I will still write. Writing has been my hobby ever since I founded, edited, and published FUTO Bubbles, a campus print magazine, back in my undergraduate days.

That said, I hope you will keep checking my X feed!

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