Maybe I'm way off base here, but requiring payment seems to be less about making money and more about tying an identity to the user and the legal nature of the

Maybe I'm way off base here, but requiring payment seems to be less about making money and more about tying an identity to the user and the legal nature of the relationship between the user and the service. I also don't agree the blue checkmark is an ego thing, but just that it's necessary to do publicity work on Twitter.