WATCH!!! U.S. and its allies put their air forces in harm’s way to defend Israeli civilians against drone & missile attacks coming from the terrorist Islamic Regime…

Shouldn’t they do the same for Ukraine?

I asked DoS Spox 👇🏻

#StoprussiaNOW

.Speaker Mike Johnson , Russia is Irans closest ally. By delaying aid to Ukraine, you are helping Irans closest ally. Please pass the new aid bill to Ukraine and Israel now and stand with our democratic allies & partners against their/our autocratic foes.

At a critical moment for supplemental aid, hundreds of constituents from around the U.S. are taking to Capitol Hill to push for #UkraineAidNow .

Speaker Mike Johnson must bring supplemental aid to a vote. Representatives must sign discharge petitions to ensure Ukraine aid passes.

Timothy Snyder FataTurchina #OndaCivica🌊#USofEurope#FBPE🇪🇺🌍 Mike Johnson must be regarded as a Russian asset until he proves otherwise.

US Speaker Mike Johnson says House will vote on Ukraine and Israel aid this week on.ft.com/3JikQXk

unusual_whales Bots already infiltrated the blue check thing months ago. Just say the real reason for it and move on

unusual_whales Running these bot farms isn’t free.. so they’re already invested and obviously finding it worth while/profitable. Why won’t they just bundle this new cost into their price and charge their customers for it?

More like a licensing fee for X on running bot farms.

unusual_whales Battle Beagle so now if they nuke your account and you have to start over...

let me guess, nuking intensifies

unusual_whales Or it's because it's the only way to keep the business afloat

X is burning money fast and Elon is desperate

unusual_whales Imagine bot farms having to pay less than 1% of their proceeds before posting “🐈 in bio”

unusual_whales what Elon fails to realize is that the bots make money here so they will happily pay the fee, the average user does not make money here and will not pay the fee. What a big brain idea Elon!

unusual_whales All scam bots have Twitter premium already. I'm sure they will happily pay for it

unusual_whales No other website has such glaring issues with bots. The old Twitter didn’t even have these problems. It’s kind of weird that no one will explain why they have such a hard time dealing with the bots and why charging people to use a website (never a good idea) is the only solution

unusual_whales What happened to freedom of speech—the ‘free’ in freedom? Or has it become ‘pay to spam’? How much does the API cost to streamline spam? It seems Elon wants a piece of the scam and spam industry. Way to go… Watching you unravel is one of my greatest pleasures in life.

unusual_whales I know this seems like a good idea, but this may be even worse because it can create a sense of false security.

I feel bot campaigns backed by nation-state funding will not be burdened by this.

Last October, X started charging new unverified users $1 per year in New Zealand and the Philippines.

Read more: unusualwhales.com/news/new-x-acc…

JUST IN: New X accounts will now be required to pay a small annual fee before they’re able to post, like, bookmark, and reply, per X News Daily.

Elon Musk has said: Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots.

This won't work for all the reasons Elon already knows

It's not about stopping bots, it's about increasing revenue

Oh look, it's a pointless ad from an account with a blue check and a GAN-generated face (Zoe Friedman). #BlueCheckShenaniGANs

(GAN = 'generative adversarial network', more here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generativ… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StyleGAN)

cc: Zippy

Ever since the $8 blue 'verification' checkmark feature was added to Twitter (now X), cryptocurrency spammers have taken advantage of the visibility boost it provides to make their repetitive replies harder to ignore.

cc: Zippy