Even if used mostly by promoters, spammers, trolls, bots, etc., who want to pay to direct message, it still seems like a win/win for everyone. They get their eyeballs on message, the receiver gets paid for their attention, Twitter likely will get some additional revenue.
I personally get spam DMs too, even though I intentionally keep my follower count low, so I can see how this would cut down on spam by a huge amount for bigger accounts.
I think the big issue is that for many people, they disable it to avoid harassment/bullying/trolling, not spam. So now those same people can just pay for an account every time they keep going (which may or may not be likely, granted).
Another big issue is I don't want the same person operating my message board of choice to also be operating a pay-to-pay spam service. I can think of few things more antithetical. How far we have fallen from the days of bulletin boards.
Even if used mostly by promoters, spammers, trolls, bots, etc., who want to pay to direct message, it still seems like a win/win for everyone. They get their eyeballs on message, the receiver gets paid for their attention, Twitter likely will get some additional revenue.
I personally get spam DMs too, even though I intentionally keep my follower count low, so I can see how this would cut down on spam by a huge amount for bigger accounts.