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Block all Twitter Blue subscribers

🔗 What?

Twitter Blue is a subscription service where you can pay $8 a month for a blue check mark and a few select features. One of those features is that your tweets will show higher up in the replies than other accounts who do not subscribe to Twitter Blue because that is what the free marketplace of ideas means.
Open even the slightest of controversial tweets (such as a local library celebrating Pride) and you’ll be forced to scroll through hundreds of the absolute worst people you can imagine. Just some real freaks.
You should block all of these people and not look back. To do this I use Blue Blocker on Chrome (Firefox here).

Twitter’s ranking algorithm not only includes “Is the user subscribed to Blue?” but also takes into account blocks and mutes.
Giant block lists are a source of pain for Twitter. “The giant block lists are problematic. They mess up the recommendation system & create a DDoS vector.” - @elonmusk.
It’s therapeutic to not deal with these people. In fact, you’ll quick realize it’s a lot of the same people over and over again (you will have already blocked them). Not that many people subscribe to Blue.

Install Blue Blocker on Chrome (Firefox here). You do not need to turn it on. You do not need to login to use it. Just keep it running in the background and let it to do its thing.
- It’s also open source!
It will block users with blue checks as they appear on your screen (specifically it will queue them for blocking, and slowly drip away as block is pretty severely rate-limited).
I’m a bit of a freak myself so I like to dive into tweets from awful people and just mass-block all the replies. Seeing that number go up in realtime feels really good.

By default “block people I follow” and “block people who follow me” are unchecked, meaning they’ll be spared.
After using this for about a month, the amount of collateral damage (that is, noticing I’ve blocked someone I didn’t want to) has been… 2 people.