When platforms attach financial rewards to posting activity, you naturally get more posts—that's basic economics. Layer AI into it and you're drowning in generated noise. The result? Crypto Twitter has become flooded with incentivized slop from various reward programs. The quality bar keeps dropping, and it's mostly low-effort content churned out by automation. X likely noticed this degradation of conversation quality and factored it into their strategy to clean up the feed. The more you incentivize without filters, the more spam multiplies.