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Twitter Inc. is starting to provide revenue for impressions (twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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While there's nothing inherently wrong with this, the current state of the social media meta is to purposefully stir up drama and ragebait for clicks. Now aside from just impressions and clout, people will have an actual monetary incentive to do so.

It kinda makes the idiom "any publicity is good publicity" true in a sense.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/110708775736595511

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I try to keep an open mind, especially because I'm immigrant who has other concerns outside the US sociopolitical sphere, but this is exactly one of the things I immediately saw happening given the demographic of people paying for Twitter Blue.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As your share of our ads revenue in replies, you're receiving $7,036.

Holy shit that’s a lot of money* for spreading hate.

*The tweet doesn’t specify what time frame/window this amount was generated within. Could be the users entire time on the bird site, or for just last week…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like it's monthly? Or that's what some of the people in that thread are saying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's still a Holy Shit then.