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I'm sure Twitter gets more value out of King than $8/month.

Seems like and interesting research problem. Too bad the researchers won’t be able to afford the API access cost to research things like this ;)

I'm sure they do, but wasn't that also a part of Twitter Blue, a revenue share, or have they not followed through with that either?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623927/twitter-blue-ad-r...

But accounts like his are what _drives_ people to Twitter. I already left months ago, but I'd definitely be leaving if the company that profits off of me wants to charge me for the privilege.

Twitter sells user eyeballs to advertisers. The user’s are there to look at posts from people like King.

I’m sure pre-Musk Twitter got far more than $8/mo out of King posting on the site.