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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

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Post by Akcium »

dEnigma wrote: post #10
throwaway2990 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same here. And good engagement dropped down significantly. When I had 10K followers, I can easily get 200-400-500 likes and they were more or less real because I also get a lot of impressions and replies.

Nowadays with 35K followers I get, say, 20 likes and ~3 of them are bots.

Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines

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Post by prepend »

hliyan wrote: post #4

I 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.

It’s not the $1, it’s the identity linked to the charge. So now they can be blocked as well as traced back to the funding account.

I once was in a charity sponsored therapy group and they had a $10 fee. I was annoyed as this was a pretty wealthy organization and the fee seemed discriminatory, or at least a hassle. I learned that it was just there to validate each participant.

So I think this is just a filter to help reduce bot spam.

Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines

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Post by horseRad »

dEnigma wrote: post #10
throwaway2990 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As someone who reported tons of stupidly obvious spam/crypto bots pre takeover I'm genuinely puzzled as to people reporting _increased_ bots as I can spot maybe one every now and then. Maybe it's because I'm a passive user, but to me it's solved.

Re: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines

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Post by raverbashing »

prepend wrote: post #16
hliyan wrote: post #4

I 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.

It’s not the $1, it’s the identity linked to the charge. So now they can be blocked as well as traced back to the funding account. I once was in a charity sponsored therapy group and they had a $10 fee. I was annoyed as this was a pretty wealthy organization and the fee seemed discriminatory, or at least a hassle. I learned that it was just there to validate each participant. So I think this is just a filter to help…

Plenty of bots are paying the 5$ verified account

It's a non-issue

And of course a lot of them have the same X logo or Elon's picture, because His Xcellence probably fired the thinking heads dealing with spam

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