[aik]

Not entirely sure I believe everything here. Curious how it plays out. Lot of narrative-affirming content.

“In the Examiner article, O’Reilly made reference to a “scam bot [that] had a blue check mark, meaning that, unlike me, it pays money every month to Elon Musk’s vastly indebted and unprofitable platform, a situation which would greatly disincentive his company taking proactive measures to weed them out”.

Is the argument here that someone is creating an army of paid accounts and spamming with them? And this is a major source of bots? Is this actually happening? I think that is probably unlikely given how expensive it would be?

[orwin]

Doesn't Twitter use localized payment? So it would be extremely cheap if you localize your account in Zimbabwe or something.

If it doesn't, I guess that explains why the last time I went on,twitter seemed even more American than before.