Users can soon earn money from Twitter, says Elon Musk

Twitter chief govt officer Elon Musk on Monday mentioned the micro-blogging platform is “spinning up subscriptions” so customers can “charge” their followers for particular content material.

When one consumer posted an extended tweet with the brand new Blue function that enables subscribers to create tweets of as much as 4,000 characters, Musk replied, “Good use of long tweet! Next update will allow much longer tweets with basic formatting, so you can post any content on Twitter.”

“We’re also spinning up subscriptions, so you can charge people for some content and they can easily pay with one click,” Musk added.

Some customers expressed their ideas on Musk’s submit.

While one consumer requested, “Charging to read a tweet? Or paywall?”, one other commented, “Great idea. Now an author can publish his entire book on Twitter perhaps one chapter at a time. Leave the first few tweets as free and rest paid.”

The upcoming function can end up be a chance for customers to earn cash from their followers on the micro-blogging platform.

Meanwhile, final week, the micro-blogging platform introduced it’ll now not enable non-Twitter Blue customers to make use of textual content messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) methodology, after March 20.

Earlier this month, Twitter had confirmed that it’s going to cost Rs 650 per thirty days for its Blue service with verification on the internet and Rs 900 on Android and iOS cellular gadgets in India.

The Twitter Blue rollout was consistent with its chief govt officer Elon Musk’s drive to push for monetisation on the platform.

Musk had beforehand prompt he would set the worth of the subscription service considering the area that it was being rolled out in however that doesn’t look like the case.

Twitter Blue’s month-to-month value is larger than Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music and several other different world companies that are usually accessible for cheaper in such markets to issue within the nations’ low GDPs.

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