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Great, now the timeline is going to be full of "just tweeted X to my super follows, super follow me here: ...". Sounds like more ads.

I guess in fairness you probably don't want to follow people who tweet like this but these kinds of tweets will still be hard to avoid. I'd rather just pay twitter $x/yr for no ads.

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Yeah, a few artists I follow were in the first batch and I'm already getting tired of them shilling for Patreon, Twitch subs, Ko-Fi and now Twitter subscriptions, all at once, all over my timeline.

I realize these people need an income but I can't be the only one that feels a bit put off.

It's a tough balance, as you said, artists and creators should have a way to monetize. But they're hardly the only ones doing it, so depending on who you follow, Twitter can end up feeling like a subway station with buskers as far as the eye can see.

You don’t even have to do all that. Twitter has a mute words feature that allows you to target key words so that you’ll never see tweets that have them.

It amazes me how much HN complains about Twitter without understanding the tools Twitter provides. It’s similar in essence to uniformed Anti Vaxxers who’s only contempt with Vaccines are based on lack of understanding.

It does not always work. Early this year I added "NFT" to my list, tons of posts got through.

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