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Quite a lot of them even have blue ticks, meaning they're paying for the privilege.

It all stems from the "free speech" unwillingness to ban accounts, and gutting the account-banning teams. As well as the very real problem that some of the big grifters that he loves on the platform also love their inflated follower counts.

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Let's be clear though, the platform is not a platform of free speech as in 1st Amendment free speech. Actually I'm not sure what definition it falls under because they don't allow threads, they don't allow you to see posts without logging in (though s/twitter.com/nittern.net solves that?!), and it seems to have just become a pay to speak platform (or maybe I'm soft-shadow banned for reporting so many accounts). I'm not sure under what metric this Twitter is better than the one before.

If you take free speech to its extreme spam filters should be taken down, no?

Ofcourse no actual real life user wants to inundated with spam, scams and advertising.

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