It only applies to New Zealand and the Philippines "for now." I'm guessing because Musk located a lot of bot farms there. And of course those bots can just use a VPN to skirt the fee. Thus giving an excuse for Musk to expand his fee to more and more countries, until everyone is paying.
SmokeyMeadow 1 points 6 months ago
Here's a non-paywalled article:
https://themessenger.com/tech/elon-musk-one-dollar-fee-x-twitter-new-zealand-philippines-not-a-bot
It only applies to New Zealand and the Philippines "for now." I'm guessing because Musk located a lot of bot farms there. And of course those bots can just use a VPN to skirt the fee. Thus giving an excuse for Musk to expand his fee to more and more countries, until everyone is paying.