[hirundo]

The only practical way to do that is to take a credit card and run a test transaction against it. If Twitter had tried that it would have died in the nest. People wouldn't take the risk for an unknown benefit. A large portion of their current tweeters still wouldn't, or couldn't provide such proof.

[mehrdadn]

> The only practical way to do that is to take a credit card and run a test transaction against it.

Doesn't really work everywhere in the world.

[samfriedman]

Ah, to solve the social media bot problem, we must first simply uplift the world to a unified economic system.

[dawnerd]

They just need to actually open up verification to everyone not just saying they are but in reality keeping the same requirements that are so subjective.