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My understanding is that they basically have.

If your ad spend is greater than ~$5k, you get a twitter liaison that can fast-track verification.

Seems self-defeating if any significant number of people, like me, block every individual from whom I see a promoted tweet. (I assume that such tweets are the only way an individual rather than a corporation would have a non negligible ad spend?)

I guess not many people do as I do. But promoting one’s stupid tweets is a pretty good indication of someone I do not and will never have any interest in hearing from… I suppose I might make an exception for a sufficiently funny/edgy promoted tweet, but I also suspect that twitter enforces stricter content rules on promoted tweets?

I agree with you. But I think it's a relatively niche position (by niche, I mean less than 1% of the population).

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