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@Austen I can’t wait for @nikitabier to go after @finkd and tell him to disclose the paid promotions.
3:03 PM · Jul 14, 2026don't do it. it's not that it doesn't work, it's that it trains your gradient sheepward
So is paying big anonymous Twitter accounts to QT your fundraise just a normal part of the launch playbook now
Who the hell is paying $10,000 per tweet and why are they never messaging me?
yes going rates for a QT/reply from these accounts run $500 to $10,000 per account. it's insane what gets spent because companies want max distribution here. for tech niches, reach on X often beats what known influencers charge for YT, IG, and TikTok deals - then it flows downstream to organic reviews and use by people on YT, IG and TT. a good launch can drive so much inbound that the wide reach pays for itself. including in hiring, less time and money spent hunting down incredible talent when they're coming to you. look at zuck, he even returned to post on X and got 23M views. Startups would pay silly money for the mindshare and conversation that comes from 23M views. very hard for them to do even 10% of that organically
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