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by phneutral26 975 days ago
From a perspective of a normal user? Awful. Now suddenly you have to pay to TWEET? I don't believe people will take this lightly, especially with the shit X pulled recently.

From a perspective of a botter? Probably also awful, but 1$ per year is not something a person in possession of a huge botnet couldn't afford to pay. Especially if X will relax in the comfort of this subscription and ban less accounts. That would make 1$ p/y really rather cheap when you also account for basic computing costs.

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> but 1$ per year is not something a person in possession of a huge botnet couldn't afford to pay

I don't think it's the $ amount that is important, its the ability to pay. If your bot net is pretending to be 10000 Americans, paying $1 each in a way that doesn't cause X's botnet alarm to start flagging your accounts - ie with different American credit cards - is a little harder.