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Periodically some cronjob at Twitter HQ decides I’m less a content producer and more a monetizable eyeball, and then I get a *brisk* tour of every new Japanese dating app.

This seems to be inefficient for all parties.
Part of me wants to screen grab for purpose of social / business commentary, part worried about them being risqué and there being social consequences, and part worries that glance time or something could teach the machine “Ahh clearly he wants more content like this.”
Just sell me financial services or something.

“But you’re too sophisticated to purchase any financial service which is advertised and the marketing departments know how to intuit that at scale.”

Darn it!
Part of me wishes I could just buy my attention back, but I know the reason for that is adverse selection (eyeballs are cheap but your eyeball is expensive if you would happily pay money for software), but there’s *clearly* a way for Twitter to charge me $1k+ a month.
“You’d pay $1k a month for Twitter!?!”

If the long-term value of me writing on the Internet for a month doesn’t annihilate that number I’m doing something terribly wrong.
It would be a stretch to describe Twitter as Bloomberg Terminal for me but it is a lot less of a stretch than I would have predicted when I started using it.
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