Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by wutbrodo on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:57AM (#31156690)

I still don't underatand why paying would help. Wouldn't simply filtering out the unverified work the same way?

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dd36 on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:00PM (#31157660)

Paying verifies.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by wutbrodo on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:27PM (#31160149)

Obviously, but verification already exists. For your answer to make sense, one needs to assume that there's a non-trivial problem of verified bot accounts.

Is that assumption correct? It seems incredibly wrong to me, but I may be misinformed.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dd36 on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:25PM (#31161563)

Verification only exists for a small group not the general public.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by wutbrodo on Monday April 25, 2022 @08:01PM (#31162440)

Ah OK, so you're saying that this will enable an expansion of verification, which will then serve as a solution to the bot issue.

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