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Re:Linda Yaccarino: no single authentic user saw this conten... by agroot12 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:16AM (#38360855)
But through Twitter/X's ad revenue sharing, money you spend on Apple products goes into marketing on Twitter/X, and finances Nazis.
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Re:Linda Yaccarino: no single authentic user saw this conten... by broken-kebab on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:48AM (#38362936)
I'm not a user of X/Twitter, so genuine question: how does it work? Users get money for viewing ads? For ads shown along their posts?
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Re:Linda Yaccarino: no single authentic user saw this conten... by nickthegreek on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @10:12AM (#38364679)
you pay X $8/month and then you are eligible for a payout based off of some metric around how much your tweet is interacted with and the ads that were near it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/self-proclaimed-misogynist-an...

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