when you just can't be content with ruining one holiday

Just to be clear, I'd accept ads for used car lots, fortified wines, cigs, and fentanyl products, but under no circumstances would I ever allow my timeline to be shit on with a political ad.

The account meanwhile can limit how many and what advertisers they approve. Honestly, I would allow one sponsored ad on each one of my weekend car ID threads, which I don't think would be all that annoying to readers.

I could see it working like this: ad-verified accounts get shared with martech/adtech agencies, along with account viewing stats and content description. They can say, hey, I like this TL for a client, and can target ad there. Twitter keeps 50%, account keeps 50%.

In short, if a verification badge on Twitter simply meant you were eligible to get a decent cut of ad revenue targeted to your timeline, hell yes I would pay the $8 per month, and go car IDs 24/7.

By contrast when I do car IDs, audience is much smaller but everybody seems to enjoy them (especially me). Pretty innocuous, like cute pet videos, and I can see a path to monetizing that for a few buck per week on Twitter, if the tools were there. But they aren't.

The thing is, I've gotten 3+ million views on tweets that are I guess 'sick burns' or whatever but ultimately it's just a meaningless arcade game score, with angry disagreeing idiots and angry agreeing idiots haunting your TL for a week or more. None of that buys me a beer.

I see nothing wrong here

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