What is the ruling on creating 40 Twitter accounts, each with ten thousand real followers, and publishing promotional tweets for a fee, provided that the content of the advertisement is reviewed? Is it permissible to offer a weekly subscription for a fee to retweet the subscriber's tweets on one or more of these accounts? If this method is not permissible, what is the correct way to publish?
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It is permissible to create accounts on Twitter or other platforms to publish permissible advertisements for a fee, provided that they do not promote anything forbidden. However, agreeing with someone to retweet for a certain period for a fee is not permissible because it usually does not escape deceit and fraud.
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