https://x.com/InsiderWire/status/1978153471942570136
#BREAKING: X will soon be displaying every users’ country of origin on their public profiles.
https://x.com/DMichaelTripi/status/1978482790950981761
NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does “more harm than good.”
The first social media platform to implement a 'block India' button will win itself hegemony over the next decade.
Bonus points if it lets users clean up the remaining spam by paying a flat, anonymous one-time "I'm not a bot" fee of like five dollars, and then filtering for users who have paid the fee. Between these two, you'd have spam completely solved.
I'd agree with the first half but not the second. Geoblocking everything in South America, Africa and Asia west of Korea would have a disproportionate benefit for most online systems, but if the expected return on spam wasn't more than $5 it would already be a solved problem on Twitter with their blue checkmark.
Do the spam accounts (crypto 'investor' bots, etcetera) have blue checkmarks?
I very much doubt that they have an ROI of more than a few cents per bot.