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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by hirundo on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:32PM (#16275587)
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.
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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by mehrdadn on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:14PM (#16276042)
> 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.

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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by samfriedman on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:09PM (#16277094)
Ah, to solve the social media bot problem, we must first simply uplift the world to a unified economic system.
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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by dawnerd on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:41PM (#16275702)
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.
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