It isn't about the money. It is about getting the payment method. Getting tons of payment methods that are not obviously linked is not easy. Payment companies will often give up addresses, phones, etc. A bunch of information that can be used to connect accounts/bots.
Ah, I see you still believe Musk's argument that all of these changes have been "to fight bots" despite there being far more bots after he took over. If he really wanted to fight bots, he wouldn't have fired the Safety and Election Integrity teams.
Don't know, this sounds like an excellent use of stolen credit cards. And considering it's just a dollar, I could see CC harvesters using Twitter as their testbed for CC #s (as apposed to charities, etc.). Then they can sell the accts as well as the CCs.
May take time to spin up, but eventually being willing to pay a dollar for Twitter might mean the acct is more likely a bot than a human.
As soon as they launch this it will immediately become a stolen card test bed until the cc company closes the loophole. It makes perfect sense but nobody can explain that to the musk because they will get sacked
Nobody's who isn't already dependent enough on Twitter to pay $8/mo is handing over their payment info now. Maybe they'll pay it with Apple Pay/Google Pay or Paypal but that doesn't help Twitter.
Comments
It isn't about the money. It is about getting the payment method. Getting tons of payment methods that are not obviously linked is not easy. Payment companies will often give up addresses, phones, etc. A bunch of information that can be used to connect accounts/bots.
Ah, I see you still believe Musk's argument that all of these changes have been "to fight bots" despite there being far more bots after he took over. If he really wanted to fight bots, he wouldn't have fired the Safety and Election Integrity teams.
Don't know, this sounds like an excellent use of stolen credit cards. And considering it's just a dollar, I could see CC harvesters using Twitter as their testbed for CC #s (as apposed to charities, etc.). Then they can sell the accts as well as the CCs.
May take time to spin up, but eventually being willing to pay a dollar for Twitter might mean the acct is more likely a bot than a human.
As soon as they launch this it will immediately become a stolen card test bed until the cc company closes the loophole. It makes perfect sense but nobody can explain that to the musk because they will get sacked
Nobody's who isn't already dependent enough on Twitter to pay $8/mo is handing over their payment info now. Maybe they'll pay it with Apple Pay/Google Pay or Paypal but that doesn't help Twitter.