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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.

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.