With Twitter allowing users to verify their accounts for a monthly fee, the number of accounts with a blue checkmark — previously associated with prominent figures — has flooded the social media platform. A browser extension available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari aims to bring back the balance by revealing the accounts that have paid $8 for subscribing to Twitter Blue.Under the direction of Elon Musk, Twitter rolled out the “Twitter Blue” subscription to discourage spam bots and fake accounts on the platform. However, when the service was initially launched in November 2022, trolls took it as an opportunity to verify parody accounts and propagate fake information.While a subsequent Know Your Customer requirement stifled the account verification of suspicious accounts, the number of verified accounts on Twitter skyrocketed, reintroducing user doubt. A browser extension named “Eight Dollars” allows users to spot the difference between actual verified accounts and Twitter Blue users.The extension shows how each account gained its verification badge. For users that paid for the Twitter Blue subscription, the extension will display a “paid” text right next to the blue checkmark. For the rest, it will simply show “verified.“