The $8 is important because it's a tax on bad behavior. Want to spam-post about your crypto giveaway? At least now you'll be out that $8 with each of your acc

The $8 is important because it's a tax on bad behavior. Want to spam-post about your crypto giveaway? At least now you'll be out that $8 with each of your accts that gets deleted/flagged. Previously the cost was $10-$200 per thousand twitter accts. (via a captcha farm). So this change makes it significantly more costly to spam. https://www.icir.org/vern/papers/twitter-acct-purch.usesec13.pdf https://www.icir.org/vern/papers/twitter-acct-purch.usesec13...