Can You Really Make Money on Twitter?

Photo: Primakov (Shutterstock)Twitter has launched two new features, Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces, that the company says will help creators make money off of their followers. Does this mean you could make a decent living using the social media app? Probably not, unless you already have a huge Twitter following eager to consume your content at a premium. Here’s a look at how the new features work.Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces are invite-only, for now Super Follows is kind of like Patreon, as it allows content creators to charge their followers $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 per month for access to exclusive content. What that extra content might be is up to the creators, but it could take the form of bonus tweets, access to third party community groups, or a subscription to a newsletter.Ticketed Spaces is meant to be a paid competitor to the audio-hangout app Clubhouse, and it will allow you to charge users between $1 and $999 to access exclusive audio rooms within Twitter. Technically, Spaces, which launched in beta last spring, already exists for users who have at least 600 followers; the “Ticketed” part is what’s new (and currently only open to a select few).To access these features now,…
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