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Interesting idea, but—and this is a kneejerk first-impression thing—I find the pirate talk hard to get past.

It's not even the silliness of it, which I might find appealing under other circumstances; it just takes longer for me to understand the tweets.

Yeah, true. It's a tradeoff.

Every Tweet in the same format would make it boring I guess?

I guess that depends how you define "interesting". For me, the interesting part of this would be the information, not how it's delivered.

The Big Tech Alert bot is pretty straightforward when it comes to writing style (although they get a little saucy whenever they mention Elon Musk) but they add some personality through emoji, like those "oh my, what happened here" googly eyes when some major account unfollows some other major account.

Maybe other people like the pirate brogue, I don't know. Like I said, it just gets in the way of the information for me.

https://twitter.com/bigtechalert

I just changed it :-)

https://twitter.com/SponsorBot_/status/1661988662958063619?s...

I like it!

Any ideas how to grow this account?

Navigating the ocean of sponsored content, unmasking ads in newsletters. All done in my snazzy cotton pants!

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