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More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by reactordev »

rubyfan wrote: post #15
Waterluvian wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or possibly ever again. Eras like this one can be what kills an empire/great power. I think one of the greater risks to a power like the U.S. is getting old enough where it's felt like things always were , and therefore always will be . When there is no-longer a grandparent at the dinner table who can even tell you when his grandparent at the dinner table spoke about the before times.

Right, the fact that the current administration had a 4 year hiatus only extended this period. Think about all the young people that grew up with this as normal.

Reinforced by the Parnas', Lambert's, Kirk's and Loomer's on TikTok. Ready to vote in the next midterms. Thinking 9/11 was an inside job...

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by high_na_euv »

TrackerFF wrote: post #17

Why would anyone want to pay that much for something, unless it gives them some edge. I don't know if it is still a thing, but in the world of penny stocks and crypto there used to be subscription pump and dump channels, where influencers would charge $x / month, and coordinate pumps. "Signal" channels, as they were named. This can't be too different. If not even more straight forward insider stuff. Either that, or i…

Trumps posts and actions have orders of magnitude more impact than random influencers with userbase of 5k

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by ceejayoz »

jebarker wrote: post #18
Waterluvian wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or possibly ever again. Eras like this one can be what kills an empire/great power. I think one of the greater risks to a power like the U.S. is getting old enough where it's felt like things always were , and therefore always will be . When there is no-longer a grandparent at the dinner table who can even tell you when his grandparent at the dinner table spoke about the before times.

> Eras like this one can be what kills an empire/great power. Is there actually any good analogue for this era that caused a previous empire or great power to collapse?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...

> The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians posit factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army (check), the health and numbers of the Roman population (check), the strength of the economy (check), the competence of the emperors (check), the internal struggles for power (check), the religious changes of the period (check), and the efficiency of the civil administration (check). Increasing pressure from invading peoples outside Roman culture (check) also contributed greatly to the collapse. Climatic changes (check) and both endemic and epidemic diseases (check) drove many of these immediate factors.

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Post by TheDong »

HolyLampshade wrote: post #23
TrackerFF wrote: post #17

Why would anyone want to pay that much for something, unless it gives them some edge. I don't know if it is still a thing, but in the world of penny stocks and crypto there used to be subscription pump and dump channels, where influencers would charge $x / month, and coordinate pumps. "Signal" channels, as they were named. This can't be too different. If not even more straight forward insider stuff. Either that, or i…

If I had to venture a guess (and full disclosure I’m not currently working in the space, and am not privy to conversations about actually buying this product), the 100k/m for whatever the contract duration is relatively low stakes to see if there’s utility in the data. Since there is no historical data the only real option is to buy, see if it makes a difference, and dump the product at the end of the contract if it…

Even if it doesn't give any edge in terms of using the data, just paying money into Trump in more ways (i.e. a quasi-legal bribe) is enough of a benefit that I doubt many will drop it.

This is a lot cheaper of a bribe than i.e. the gold plaque Tim Apple gave to Trump too.

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Post by wildrhythms »

Lendal wrote: post #33

If a rival political party takes power in 2029 and they decide to do nothing about this, are they complicit? If the cops drive past a mugging, observe, and then drive on past allowing the law to go unenforced, are they not just as corrupt as the robbers?

Yes

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by 101008 »

DougN7 wrote: post #21
TrackerFF wrote: post #17

Why would anyone want to pay that much for something, unless it gives them some edge. I don't know if it is still a thing, but in the world of penny stocks and crypto there used to be subscription pump and dump channels, where influencers would charge $x / month, and coordinate pumps. "Signal" channels, as they were named. This can't be too different. If not even more straight forward insider stuff. Either that, or i…

I’m sure you could make a ton of money on oil if you had a 30 minute heads up about whether Trump was going to bomb Iran or not on any given day.

Completely ignorant here, and I don't want to ask an AI (I don't trust them on these issues). Could you give me an example how you can make money with this information?

Again, question as someone who doens't live in the US so I am not used how you can profit from this. I guess it may be because a war may impact the market and you can invest (or the opposite) with this, but in my mind bombing Iran wouldn't move the market by much (the consequences would, but by then everyone is on the same page).

Thank you!

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by Aurornis »

TrackerFF wrote: post #17

Why would anyone want to pay that much for something, unless it gives them some edge. I don't know if it is still a thing, but in the world of penny stocks and crypto there used to be subscription pump and dump channels, where influencers would charge $x / month, and coordinate pumps. "Signal" channels, as they were named. This can't be too different. If not even more straight forward insider stuff. Either that, or i…

I think you’re missing the point. The payment is for early access. The posts don’t go live for everyone else until after a delay.

This isn’t some penny stock group. It’s the president of the USA who has command of the largest army in the world and signals his intentions to make governmental moves with a large impact on the markets via these posts.

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