> So wouldn't this change to lead to less corporate influence? It's the adverse selection issue. The people willing to pay for Twitter Blue are the people that

> So wouldn't this change to lead to less corporate influence? It's the adverse selection issue. The people willing to pay for Twitter Blue are the people that were already using Twitter as a "lead-gen" source; so their content was mostly spam disguised as engagement-bait ("Here are the top 10 writing tips from Harvard professors [thread emoji]"). As for bots, I don't frequent the topics that attract them, so the visible bot activity I've seen is limited to the replies section of high-traffic topics (crypto, covid, musk, politics). Corporate bots tweet messages, while spambots mostly retweet someone else's post.