I want Twitter to embrace its true identity as a platform for rich people / companies to broadcast their brand to the masses.
If you have > 2,000 followers, you pay $0.01 per 10,000 followers per tweet. At current follower counts, Elon Musk pays $97/tweet. CNN pays $58. McDonalds pays $4.50.
Pay the same amount to reply to a tweet/thread of an account with that many followers.
Bot problem solved. No need for an ad platform, ad targeting, etc.
The whole thing is just paid ads.
The point is that this is how Twitter already works: it's 99% a platform for rich people, companies, and big journalists to broadcast their opinions. Sure, there is some minor amount of "the masses" voicing their opinion, but it's marginal. And more importantly, the vast, vast majority of Twitter's users never tweet, and only look at tweets from the initial group.
The poster is saying - why keep up this charade of being a social media platform at all, worrying about bots harassing your ad-viewers and so on? Why not embrace how the platform is already going, and get more direct monetization from those looking to broadcast?
If you want to see platforms for voicing opinions of the masses, Facebook and Reddit are doing much better at that, witch much more organic conversation and interaction.
If you have > 2,000 followers, you pay $0.01 per 10,000 followers per tweet. At current follower counts, Elon Musk pays $97/tweet. CNN pays $58. McDonalds pays $4.50.
Pay the same amount to reply to a tweet/thread of an account with that many followers.
Bot problem solved. No need for an ad platform, ad targeting, etc. The whole thing is just paid ads.