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This is interesting as a rough way to benchmark the value of a Twitter account.

At 20M impressions per month, that’s about $115,200 in equivalent advertising spend. falcon.io/insights-hub/t…
Published ad rates give an impartial way to put dollar values on things like accounts, posts, and followers.

We can estimate how much two combatants got paid* for brawling on Twitter, the right price of a username, or the economic impact of deplatforming.

* in followers
These are also very useful numbers to know for calibrating crypto social networks.

Not just today’s ad rates, but the old ones when the networks were small.

They give empirical prices that people are willing to pay to gain various kinds of exposure.
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The difference between a religious and secular society is that the latter is ostensibly predicated on scientific fact.

The similarity is that most people in both societies rely on authorities rather than personally discovering scientific facts.
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I didn’t really understand religion till crypto. False messiahs, denominational splits, arcane disputes, holy wars...it’s all there.
I also didn’t really understand banking till crypto. Actually seeing new monetary policies in action will do that for you. Sympathy for Bernanke.
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