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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.

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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.

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