68 Elon Just Bought Twitter (web.archive.org) posted 2 years ago by youtube_admin 2 years ago by youtube_admin +68 / -0 36 comments share 36 comments share save hide report block hide replies
As some people have said "authenticating all humans." is a bit worrying, depending on what is done with it (and if it is essentially used for government/corporate doxxing), but since I don't use Twitter and have no plans to start, it's popcorn time!
"authenticating humans" could be as simple as something like a captcha: to make sure you're actually a person and not a bot.
Yeah, but that doesn't do anything to stop the Mechanical Turks, like the wumao or JDIF. Still, it would be a good first step.
Slows them down a bit. Could make the problem a bit more manageable if you could eg. decrease shill throughput by an order of magnitude or two.
I think it's just going to be for bluechecks. However he might also make it so non-bluechecks can't reply.