Elon Musk defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn't follow suit would fail as they would be swarmed by bots.
Twitter engineers who left the tech firm after it was taken over by Elon Musk had worried about how the platform would be kept stable.SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn't follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots.
"That's the reason for really pressing hard on verified where the verified requires a number from a reputable phone carrier and a credit card," Musk said. And it also raises the specter of imposters and jokesters paying for an officially verified, but totally fake account. But Musk and his fans said the blue check was decided by fiat in a secretive procedure and called it a symbol of an unfair class system.
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