If there is one redeeming feature about Twitter, it’s that it’s free. Sure we have to scroll past promoted tweets once in a while, but the service doesn’t cost anything to use and it’s always been that way. Well, the folks at Twitter are now asking “what if … it wasn’t?” No, they’re not proposing you pay to use all of Twitter, they just want to see if you’ll pay for premium content.
Welcome to the world of “Super Follows.” Super Follows allows Twitter users to charge their followers for access to special content. Not just tweets but also, potentially, “access to a community group, subscription to a newsletter, or a badge indicating your support” according to The Verge. If that sounds a whole lot like Patreon (or OnlyFans or Cameo or Substack or …) but for Twitter … well, it is. Twitter very much wants in on the rising economy of micro-subscriptions and paid content, so here they are.
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