 Axe has begun testing a dollar per year charge. It's referred to as not a bot for new users and they're only testing it in New Zealand and the Philippines. Axe says the plan is meant to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity. Why is it a dollar for new users? That's just good policy. When you add in a charge, you tend to grandfather in people beforehand, at least for a while. Why only two countries? Because you're testing it. The big one is this legitimate spam deterrent. If you're wondering, will this stop every bot from appearing on X? The answer will be no. There's plenty of bots that will pay the fee. Will it reduce the number of bots and spam on X? Yes, it will because there will be lots of them who won't want to go through that or are operating at such massive levels that it would be prohibitively expensive for them to do it.