I want Twitter to embrace its true identity as a platform for rich people / companies to broadcast their brand to the masses.

If you have > 2,000 followers, you pay $0.01 per 10,000 followers per tweet. At current follower counts, Elon Musk pays $97/tweet. CNN pays $58. McDonalds pays $4.50.

Pay the same amount to reply to a tweet/thread of an account with that many followers.

Bot problem solved. No need for an ad platform, ad targeting, etc. The whole thing is just paid ads.