X will pay its Premium users to engage with each other

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266258/x-pay-premium-users-engage-with-each-other

23 Comments

  1. So a big circle jerk, so that Elon can say I have trillions of engagement every month 🤣🤣

  2. > “up to” 25 percent of Premium subscriptions will go “directly to creators.”

    rofl at “up to.” imagine paying Elon monthly in the hopes of one day getting some money from the other people that are paying elon monthy… social media has become a ponzi scheme

  3. They should just copy Snapchat and pay 6-7 figures to the big influencers to just pop 100+ times a day .
    Somehow it’s kept them alive and they haven’t ran out of money .

  4. I knew a guy who was trying to start a business, and he believed that he had to keep giving away a product that nobody wanted, for free, in order to prime the pump. He just continued to give away free merch until he eventually had to sell his house and move into a motor home. I feel like that’s what Twitter is doing here.

  5. Cool_As_Your_Dad on

    Is Leon still sharing revenue stream ? I haven’t seen anyone ever mention that in the last year ….

    Edit. Not revenue but advertisement if I remember correctly

  6. and how is this supposed to help musk pay off his twitter debt? not that im concerned i just dont understand the logic here

  7. Flat-Emergency4891 on

    Sounds like Leon is fine tuning his propaganda machine by paying like minded, popular influencers to agree with one another and why you should agree with them too.

  8. the_red_scimitar on

    Bot-farm heaven. The bots can chat at one another nonstop, rake in that sweet X-bucks paycheck.

  9. Hello fellow premium user.   Consider this your daily interaction.  I look forward to our instruction tomorrow 

  10. Tadpoleonicwars on

    “Payouts are increasing and you’ll now be paid based on engagement with your content from Premium users – not ads in replies.”

    So.. creators are now being paid out of the funds generated by subscriptions, while Twitter keeps all of the ad revenue?

  11. Until all businesses advertising on twitter understand the level of engagement are now vastly inflated by bots, they will continue to waste their money. I would love to know if bots are now factored into the pricing structure. Wouldn’t be surprised if some of those bot accounts are actually running off some of their GPUs used to train grok.