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by wombatpm 1332 days ago
How about charging anyone with more than X followers? Or pay to be verified? or pay for support? Supported bot accounts or corporate accounts? There are many options they could pursue. Twitter was not helped having Jack as a part-time CEO for all of those years.
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jcranmer 1332 days ago
> How about charging anyone with more than X followers?

Excellent idea, let's deplatform people by creating lots of bot accounts to follow them so that they have to pay for it!

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bobiny 1332 days ago
Verified accounts means it’s somebody well known outside of Twitter. So it’s beneficial to Twitter to have them.

I see today’s Twitter as a chat app where popular people promote their content to less popular. Maybe it would make sense to help populars sell stuff directly and get a cut.

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