Twitter "Super Follows" To Enable Charging for Tweets

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Twitter has announced "Super Follows" which allows charging for tweets, and for followers to get access to additional content.

The payment feature, called Super Follows, will allow Twitter users to charge followers and give them access to extra content. That could be bonus tweets, access to a community group, subscription to a newsletter, or a badge indicating your support. In a mockup screenshot, Twitter showed an example where a user charges $4.99 per month to receive a series of perks. Twitter sees it as a way to let creators and publishers get paid directly by their fans.

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[NickMNS]

Clearly Jack Dorsey has been reading my posts here:
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@NickMNS
Did you get your commission?

[mcneely]

Great .... Now we get to pay to read the rubbish

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No, completely wrong, mcneely, this is a subscription capability and does not affect the general content. I don't know what you're reading, but I filter content and only follow accounts with content I want to see and share.

[NickMNS]

Did you get your commission?

I wish!

[DominicJ]

So 99.99995% of the subscription content is going to be #*$! or fetish or watching fat people eat - it's going to be the Only Fans model basically?

Hmmmm who do I want to watch devour a burger n fries while naked... could be worth US$4.99 if they were ice skating at the same time maybe.

[DominicJ]

Patreon & OnlyFans must be watching closely.

[mcneely]

I don't know what you're reading, but I filter content and only follow accounts with content I want to see and share.

It was more of a "tounge-in-cheek" comment really.

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It was more of a "tounge-in-cheek" comment really.

I missed that, sorry.

I'd be interested to see how this is going to work. Twitter is adding a number of features other which may soon give it the opportunity for growth.