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#X (#Twitter) will start charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines $1 per year (news.retiolus.net)
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[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago
  1. It has nothing to do with bots. Bots were his way of trying to get out of being forced to make good on his legally binding offer to buy Twitter. He goes on and on about bots, but he’s stopped reporting metrics about monetizable users and just started reporting made up metrics like number of user-seconds and crap like that.
  2. The funny thing would be to use a VPN to simulate traffic from NZ so it looks like they try accessing it and then just give up.