CremeImportant2347 t1_iuw1gis wrote on November 3, 2022 at 1:09 PM

Reply to comment by DocMachina in Why a Blue check mark is now $8 on Twitter and Elon Musk's Next Steps - A piece of speculative business non-fiction by BandicootKind705

OP is talking about Twitter eventually becoming a paid service for everyone and how that transition would reduce the prevalence of bots.

I don’t understand the relevance of your first two paragraphs discussing government operation/regulation of Twitter. And your last paragraph doesn’t follow at all from the premise that everyone needs to pay for Twitter. If these concepts are connected to OP’s post then please help us see the connection.

DocMachina t1_iuz0csa wrote on November 4, 2022 at 1:32 AM

He said the US government is too powerful, or something along those lines, for bots to be on Twitter in the case of another country using social media for misinformation.

I said it's happening, right now, with countless other social media platforms. No one is going to rush to Twitter to get accurate news, so charging people to have a blue check mark, that anyone can pay for, doesn't just end bots and misinformation.

I don't see how that was lost in translation

CremeImportant2347 t1_iv20a1x wrote on November 4, 2022 at 6:01 PM

I think you misunderstood his point. His point was that payment requires a certain amount of verification through the banking system which would make it harder to use massive bots to spread misinformation. Government doesn’t have the power to sidestep that process. Hence his comment that they “can’t do spells”.

He never said bots aren’t on Twitter or that the US is too powerful to allow bots on Twitter. That’s how it was lost in translation.