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Comment by jasonkostempski | Hacker News Reader

Not that I disagree with the overall message but that's a silly example. Writing a joke tweet for yourself wouldn't likely lead to $10,000. At $10,000 a week you can dedicate many hours a day to coming up with a killer joke instead of working some other job or searching for a job... Unless that story is supposed to be a joke, in which case, I didn't get it.

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Anecdotal and not super pertinent, but joke Twitter accounts can absolutely net $10,000 a week. There are glorified bots (think something along the lines of @MensHumor or @YaBoyBillNye) with hundreds of thousands of followers that sell advertising (either external links or 'sponsored' tweets) . It's an entire bizarre community that profits massively off of retweet-happy teens.

Unless I am missing something, hundreds of thousands of followers on these types of accounts definitely does not equal close to $10,000 a week.

Anecdotal and not super pertinent, but joke Twitter accounts can absolutely net $10,000 a week

Citation needed.

Oh wait... here goes:

There are glorified bots .. with hundreds of thousands of followers that sell advertising

Ok. So you dont make money tweeting tweets. You make money farming followers and selling ads.

That's acceptable if you can make that work for you, but don't present it like you make money from tweeting when in fact you're make money selling ads.

The money is not even close to the point.

It is about practice. If you <fill in the blank> every day, you will get better and better and better. You will get better much faster than if you try to create the perfect <fill in the blank> on each attempt. And if you keep at it, eventually someone will notice.

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