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4th May, 2021 14:13 IST
Twitter To Allow Users To sell Tickets For Audio Chats On Spaces, Here s How It Works
Twitter will allow potential hosts to be able to sell their own ticket, who would also be able to decide their own price and total number of tickets to be sold.
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Twitter Inc. on Monday announced that it will now let the users charge for audio shows on its network via its new ‘Spaces’ feature. In a blog post, the company explained that Spaces is an ‘audio-only voice chat’ feature that will allow a host to stream voice chat with other Twitter users. Audience members can either listen in or become part of the conversation. Users with at least 600 followers will be able to use this feature actively. In order to monetize on Spaces, which is now available for Android users, Twitter will allow the potential hosts to be able to sell their own tickets, who would also be able to decide their own price and the number of total
Twitter to let users sell tickets to live audio chats on Spaces
Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg News
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Twitter Inc. will let hosts of audio shows on its network charge listeners a fee to tune in, a first step toward monetizing its new Spaces feature.
The company also said Monday that Spaces is now available to users of the Twitter app on Android devices, representing a vast expansion of the potential audience for the service. Even Clubhouse, the startup that inspired Twitter Spaces, has yet to widely release an Android app.
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Mohammed said Nigeria with about 25 million twitter users against Ghana’s eight million users, it was a natural expectation that Nigeria would have been the choice by Twitter to locate its headquarters for the continent.
“The reasons cited by Twitter for siting the headquarters in Accra, Ghana is that Accra is a champion of democracy and there is rule of law in the country, among other reasons
“This is what you get when you de-market your country.
“The media is more to blame for this which most times exaggerate the challenges in the country.
“At no time was this worse than during the EndSARS protest when Nigerian journalists both traditional and new media were trying to outdo themselves in painting Nigeria as a hell where nobody should live.
Kurt Wagner and Scott Deveau, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Elliott Management Corp.âs Jesse Cohn plans to step down from Twitter Inc.âs board once the company can find a replacement.
Twitter is searching for a new independent board director, in line with its âinterest in continuing to enhance the diversity of the board,â to replace Cohn, according to a filing Thursday. Itâs unclear how long the search will take. Elliottâs standstill agreement will remain in effect until Cohn steps down from the board, according to the filing.
Cohn joined Twitterâs board last year after Elliott disclosed a notable stake in the company as part of an effort to replace Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey and force Twitter to make other changes to its corporate structure. The parties eventually reached an agreement, along with private equity firm Silver Lake, that saw Twitter implement more aggressive revenue and user growth goals. At an analyst event in February, the