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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets
Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to create and join groups based around specific interests. Theyre two of the more substantial changes to Twitter in a while, but they also fit snugly into models that have been popular and successful on other social platforms.
The payment feature, called Super Follows, will allow Twitter users to charge followers and give them access to extra content. That could be bonus tweets, access to a community group, subscription to a newsletter, or a badge indicating your support. In a mockup screenshot, Twitter showed an example where a user charges $4.99 per month to receive a series of perks. Twitter sees it as a way to let creators and publishers get paid directly by their fans.
Direct payment tools have become increasingly important for creators in particular in recent years. Patreon has been hugely successful, and other platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and even GitHub have all launched direct creator payment features. Twitter will presumably take a cut the company has been hinting at subscriptions features that would offer it a new source of revenue though it doesnt appear to have said yet what that fee will be.
Twitters mockup of its Communities feature. Image: Twitter.
Twitter also announced a new feature called Communities, which appear to be its take on something like Facebook Groups. People can create and join groups around specific interests like cats or plants, Twitter suggests allowing them to see more tweets focused on those topics. Groups have been a huge success for Facebook (and a huge moderation problem, too), and they could be a particularly helpful tool on Twitter, since the services open-ended nature can make it difficult for new users to get started on the platform.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22301375/twitter-super-follows-communities-paid-followers
The payment feature, called Super Follows, will allow Twitter users to charge followers and give them access to extra content. That could be bonus tweets, access to a community group, subscription to a newsletter, or a badge indicating your support. In a mockup screenshot, Twitter showed an example where a user charges $4.99 per month to receive a series of perks. Twitter sees it as a way to let creators and publishers get paid directly by their fans.
Direct payment tools have become increasingly important for creators in particular in recent years. Patreon has been hugely successful, and other platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and even GitHub have all launched direct creator payment features. Twitter will presumably take a cut the company has been hinting at subscriptions features that would offer it a new source of revenue though it doesnt appear to have said yet what that fee will be.
Twitters mockup of its Communities feature. Image: Twitter.
Twitter also announced a new feature called Communities, which appear to be its take on something like Facebook Groups. People can create and join groups around specific interests like cats or plants, Twitter suggests allowing them to see more tweets focused on those topics. Groups have been a huge success for Facebook (and a huge moderation problem, too), and they could be a particularly helpful tool on Twitter, since the services open-ended nature can make it difficult for new users to get started on the platform.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22301375/twitter-super-follows-communities-paid-followers
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Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2021
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dweller
(23,629 posts)1. hoo boy ...
fatnixon gonna be really pissed now ...
😆
✌🏻
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)2. I don't think so
He can now charge people to follow him, so another way to milk the rubes.
dweller
(23,629 posts)3. He's permanently banned from twitter
so no love there ... not sure of other platforms
✌🏻
Miguelito Loveless
(4,465 posts)5. Ah, I forgot
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)4. Don't need it. My weekly check from George Soros covers everything.
Besides, if I tried moonlighting, he'd sic the Jewish Space Lasers on me. It's in the contract.