Twitter Sends Users Thousands of Dollars in Surprising Ad Revenue Payouts – Newsweek

Twitter announced thousands of dollars in ad revenue payouts made to users due to a program that allows them to benefit from their posts, sparking celebrations and cheers for Elon Musk, who took over the platform in October.Users on Thursday afternoon said they received notifications from Twitter that they received payouts as their share of the platform’s ad revenue in replies to the content they created or posted. The company said that the highest payout—$37,000—was made to Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus, known on Twitter as Shibetoshi Nakamoto.Twitter announced on Thursday that it’s sharing a portion of its ad revenue generated from creators’ reply threads to help users “benefit” from their posts. The payouts are received via the Stripe account used to register for Creator Subscriptions.”So far many creators are pleased with the size of the payouts and are saying Twitter’s creator programme is more generous than they expected. This is shaping up to be a win for keeping creators happy with and engaged on Twitter,” the social media company said.The payouts come shortly after social media giant Meta launched Threads, a new platform that, some experts told Newsweek, has the potential to become Twitter’s next top rival as it capitalizes
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