Twitter Bans Political Ads

“Those viral Tweets you’ve seen? Chances are I’ve made some of them.”

That was an admission from an acquaintance who works in online distribution helping new products find customers.

That was also part of the reason I pondered Twitter’s decision to disallow political ads on their social media platform — a decision widely applauded yet one that seems ripe to generate its own unintended consequences.

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