[zipperhead]

I agree. I would rather pay them some fee. But they don't seem to want to monetize their service via user fees.

[komali2]

Oh my god, paid Twitter would be amazing.

Well, then again, something awful was a paid forum iirc, and it was still a den of villainy.

[criddell]

But on Something Awful, it was a feature, not a problem.

[jordanwallwork]

Seems like it would make a lot of sense for them to offer both options; either would discourage bots, and you'd give people the choice whether to go the free route or the privacy-conscious route

[hombre_fatal]

Surely a phone number is no more identifying than a credit card payment in the age of KYC.

And accepting a cryptocurrency would probably have little impact on all the lucrative scams that get spammed around Twitter.