Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

we need a @MemeInsider to track the twitter "clout account" trends: in what areas are the likes rising? where are they falling? which accounts should we be "shorting?" what are the likes-to-monetization ratios (is that money in Patreon funding? in invoicing freelance "takes?") ?

you'd find all kinds of interesting things if you conducted this analysis. sometimes you'll find an account, 40k followers or so, dispensing pandering jokes as if it were a brand, yet discover it isn't monetized it all. the person behind it has "brand discipline,"stays on message

meanwhile i do a fairly robust freelance business. with one notable exception, if i'm typing a piece, it's for a decent sum of money. but these pieces exist outside of the takeconomy or wokeconomy. they're just work-for-hire, so they shouldn't count in an analysis of my account

thus you can't really do much with an account like this one. there are some other "working writers" in the same boat -- they just produce copy for hire on unglamorous niche topics. but a scabbing academic, tenured ideally, can often be found on here working a big brand account

@Tinkzorg mentioned this topic to me in the context of these hard-to-classify mini-big accounts that nevertheless serve no discernible function that would justify the time/effort expended on making them so marketable. he also mentioned tweets lamenting declines in likes, etc.