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I think Twitter is missing out on a big opportunity for micropayments by letting users "tip" real money when favoriting tweets. Content creators would be incent

I think Twitter is missing out on a big opportunity for micropayments by letting users "tip" real money when favoriting tweets. Content creators would be incentivized to use Twitter more if they can make money directly from tweeting. More content from more content creators would also attract more users. Content stealing and reposting would be a bigger problem, but you can somewhat address it with text and image matching algorithms and user reports.

tastroder 7y ago
> micropayments by letting users "tip" real money when favoriting tweets. Content creators would be incentivized to use Twitter more if they can make money directly from tweeting. I'd honestly delete my Twitter account if they introduced that. Twitter as a social media channel is fine (to keep up with creator's content elsewhere and maybe the odd follow-up generated by that content) but there is zero content in my feed I'd be prepared to pay any money for (and that would still hold if it was longer form/mixed media).
PhilippGille 7y ago
For Twitter there are bots for various cryptocurrencies which you can mention in an answer to a tweet, leading to the original tweeter's wallet being filled. Unfortunately most systems are not decentralized (custodial cryptocurrency wallets) and of course there's no consensus on using a single cryptocurrency.