16 Promoted Tweets People Paid Real Money For You To See

Posting on social media is always a questionable idea, and so many problems could be avoided by people just not sharing their thoughts online. Of course, there are different levels of posting: people like to promote their ideas, and they'll do it in some questionable ways. Tweeting something isn't the same as writing it in a newspaper or getting a tattoo of it. Somewhere in the murky middle ground is the promoted tweet, where a user can pay Twitter to advertise their tweet so more people will see it.

Usually, it's just a regular ad in tweet form, but since anyone can pay to be promoted, some people who would be better off not posting at all do it too. And the fact that they put actual money down on this is honestly pretty cringeworthy. Or sometimes it's just a fun way to prevent people from seeing bad ads. The @AdvertisedTwit"twitter.com/advertisedtwit account has collected some of the more bizarre promoted tweets, and we've got the worst of the worst below.