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> For a mere 80000 USD I could have a verified bot army with 10000 accounts drowning out a lot of legitimate conversations

That’s a different problem. The parent is referring to the cheap high-volume spam/scams that have proliferated every corner of the free internet. These only work because they’re extremely cheap. There’s a reason your email inbox receives 10,000x more spam than your physical mailbox.



If a scam can't even make $8 per account it's pretty much doomed to failure anyway. Think about it.




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