The reason that Twitter is going to a primarily a subscriber based system is because it is dramatically harder to create. It’s like 10, 000 times harder to create an account that has a verified phone number from a credible carrier that has a credit card and that pays a small amount of money per month and have those credit cards and phone numbers be highly distributed, not clustered is incredibly difficult.
So, whereas in the past someone could create a. A million fake accounts for a penny a piece, and then manipulate, have something appear to be very much liked by the public when in fact it is not, or promote it and retweet it when in fact it is not, this popularity is not real, and essentially game the system.
So, the bias towards a subscription based verification I think is very powerful, and that really, you won’t be able to trust any social media company that does not do this, uh, because it will simply be, uh, Overrun with Watts to such an extreme, extreme degree.
