X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
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Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#2I wonder, why they cannot just check your card, instead of charging $1?
It's not much and I'm ready to pay if it helps fighting bots.
But at the same time I noticed that before Elon took over Twitter, there were less bots (or it at least seemed so).
Will it help - that's the question
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#3I wonder, why they cannot just check your card, instead of charging $1? It's not much and I'm ready to pay if it helps fighting bots. But at the same time I noticed that before Elon took over Twitter, there were less bots (or it at least seemed so). Will it help - that's the question
Hahahhaha there’s less bots now than before Elon took over.
Now instead of reply bots tho I get like bots.
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#4I worry that this may paradoxically increase bots, because now the price of legitimacy is $1 per year. Bot farms and shills will do the math.
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#5I wonder, why they cannot just check your card, instead of charging $1? It's not much and I'm ready to pay if it helps fighting bots. But at the same time I noticed that before Elon took over Twitter, there were less bots (or it at least seemed so). Will it help - that's the question
Hahahhaha there’s less bots now than before Elon took over. Now instead of reply bots tho I get like bots.
Do you have a source on that?
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#6Aren’t tiny payments like this a favorite for people testing if stolen credit cards are working?
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#7I couldn't imagine that he's trying to kill Twitter even faster than he already was killing it.
I've seen so many bots with blue checkmarks that $1 per year doesn't seem to be that much of a deterrence for the more sophisticated bots.
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#8Ah yes, lets trust Elon Musk with your credit card info. What a joke.
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#9I worry that this may paradoxically increase bots, because now the price of legitimacy is $1 per year. Bot farms and shills will do the math.
Bot farm owners are the only ones who dont care about either $1 a year or $5 a month because they are the only ones on platform who know their ROI very well.
Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines
#10I wonder, why they cannot just check your card, instead of charging $1? It's not much and I'm ready to pay if it helps fighting bots. But at the same time I noticed that before Elon took over Twitter, there were less bots (or it at least seemed so). Will it help - that's the question
Hahahhaha there’s less bots now than before Elon took over. Now instead of reply bots tho I get like bots.
I paradoxically only really started heavily using Twitter when it seemed to decay under Musk (because I wanted be along for the fun ride). But I can hardly imagine that there could have been more bots before than there are now. Almost all my tweets are immediately liked by some catfishing bot and there are crypto spam bots under every slightly popular tweet.