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He Made $100,000 With 1 Tweet 😳

Shawn Ryan Show

A speaker recounts how someone with significant Twitter influence charged $100,000 per tweet and used that power to manipulate cryptocurrency prices, making millions by promoting coins like Doge despite lacking technical crypto knowledge. The speaker emphasizes that market movement was driven purely by influence and power rather than sound analysis or mathematical understanding.

Summary

The transcript describes a scenario involving a Twitter influencer with one million followers who monetized his social media presence by charging $100,000 per tweet. With 75% of his followers acting on his recommendations, he wielded substantial market power in cryptocurrency. The speaker illustrates this with a specific example: by naming Doge as the 'coin of the day,' the influencer could cause the price to rocket, enabling him to make 3-4 million dollars in a single day while the speaker made a couple hundred thousand. The speaker reveals he was involved in selecting coins and managing various aspects of the operation. However, the influencer's crypto traders disagreed with the speaker's approach, believing he lacked mathematical and technical cryptocurrency knowledge. Despite these objections, the influencer would defer to the speaker's judgment over his professional traders' advice. When the influencer chose to follow the speaker's recommendations, prices would surge—not because of superior analysis or math, but because of the influencer's raw power and ability to move markets through his followers' actions. The speaker emphasizes that the core mechanism was influence and social power, not technical expertise or financial acumen.

Key Insights

  • An influencer with one million Twitter followers charged $100,000 per tweet and could generate $3-4 million in daily profits by recommending cryptocurrencies like Doge because 75% of followers acted on the recommendations.
  • The speaker claims that cryptocurrency price movements were driven by the influencer's social power rather than mathematical analysis or technical knowledge, despite having professional crypto traders available.
  • The influencer's crypto traders disputed the speaker's credibility on technical grounds, arguing he lacked math and crypto knowledge, yet the influencer repeatedly chose to follow the speaker's guidance over professional traders' advice.
  • The speaker explicitly states that market impact was attributable to the influencer's power and influence to move markets, not to superior analysis: 'it wasn't me. It was his power and influence.'
  • Despite being selected as a coin picker, the speaker attributes his success and market-moving ability entirely to the influencer's social power rather than his own expertise or decision-making quality.

Topics

Twitter influence monetizationCryptocurrency market manipulationInfluencer power and social proofDoge cryptocurrencyDecision-making override between experts and influencers

Transcript

[0:00] He was charging $100,000 a tweet. He had a million followers on Twitter and 75% of them did what he said to do. [music] So, can you imagine the power you have in crypto? So, you name the coin of the day. The coin of the day is Doge. The Doge price rockets. He makes 3 or 4 million. I make a couple hundred thousand in one day. I was picking [music] out the coins. I was doing everything for him. And his crypto traders were like, "Don't listen to Jimmy. He doesn't know about math. He doesn't know the numbers. He doesn't know about crypto." John would tell me [music] this. And he'd say, "Jimmy, what do you…

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