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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service::X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The only way to fight bots is to charge users a fee? Gee, I wonder how all of these other sites do it. 2-factor logins, manual auth prompts, rotating passwords on suspected accounts.... a real unsolvable problem for the stable tech genius, I see.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It’ll get rid of bots…. And most other users

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The idea isn’t to get rid of bots. It’s to make money off them.