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Musk recently made a change where the best posters on twitter are earning money now in a ad rev share. They're almost definitely not going anywhere until anothe
by gfodor 3y ago
Musk recently made a change where the best posters on twitter are earning money now in a ad rev share. They're almost definitely not going anywhere until another social network makes the same offer.
- KerrAvon 3y agoOther social networks are pretty happy to not to have the people he's actually paying, seems to be a bizarre collection of accused rapists and right-wing trolls.
- gfodor 3y agoIt’s anyone who gets meaningful verified account impressions. There are probably tens of thousands of such accounts.
- tacomonstrous 3y agoAll these 'best' accounts are essentially the Twitter equivalent of SEO farms, as far as I can tell.
- tremon 3y ago...and if they weren't before, that change guarantees it will happen.
- mikeryan 3y agoTwitter/X is just catching up - not leading the way. YouTube, Instagram, TikTok all have ad sharing for a long time.
- gfodor 3y agoWell yeah, the point is there is no other textual online discussion board I’m aware of (fan out or otherwise) that pays people for the engagement from posting words to social media.
- smoldesu 3y agoReddit does it as well, now: https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program Both instances feel less like an olive branch and more like a last-ditch effort to retain the important users. Instead of listening to user concerns or fixing the apps, they've decided to incentivize popular users to stay active. It's not a draw for newcomers, who'd pay $8 a month for every $0.20 they earn. It's not a draw to developers, who now pay out the ass to access their platform. It's a "you're locked in here with me!" play that doesn't bode well for the treatment of users.