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by i67vw3 884 days ago
Twitter now X is full of blue check spam users (humans and bots) from India, Vietnam, Nigeria, Pakistan who spam absolute garbage under big accounts and get to the top of reply section.

I stopped visiting the site as it irritated me a lot.

Main problem is the executives at 'X' added monetization to blue check users in an automated fashion instead of manual verification. New accounts can easily get fake 500 followers and 5 million views by spamming nonsense subsequently earning more than $8 per month and getting a profit. The site right now is absolutely cooked (totally ruined).

To solve it, users should be able to get blue check for $8, but monetization should be manually enabled for accounts case by case basis. The main criteria should be the account does not spam, if violated the $8 (or $100) can be siezed by X thereby creating a financial enalty.