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0 pointsseydor3y ago0 comments

There's nothing good. When everyone can buy a checkmark, it becomes nothing.

The next step is "only allow replies from blue checkmarks"

both are bad ideas, and solely because of musk's obsession with bots. Without a mob to prop up people with retweets, twitter will be useless. You cant have the good parts without the ugly parts

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oceanplexian3y ago

Everyone can’t buy a checkmark. Bots will be almost impossible to scale at $8/mo, which means if you deprioritize or hide content from bots without the check, Twitter has a realistic shot at eliminating the bot problem.

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matwood3y ago

> When everyone can buy a checkmark, it becomes nothing

Where does it say everyone can buy a checkmark without verification? I read this as everyone can be verified, which is a good thing. And, it will go a long way to killing off the bots.

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tootie3y ago

It's reddit gold. Which makes no sense, but seems to be popular anyway.

jmathai3y ago

I assume a small fraction would pay $8/mo for Twitter. Limiting who can reply seems like a useful feature - I think this already exists for "only people I follow".

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