Twitter Spaces Rolls Out Ticketed Social Audio Rooms

on June 23, 2021 at 1:00 pm Twitter has begun allowing some Twitter Spaces hosts to charge money for joining their rooms. The new ticketing feature lets approved Twitter Spaces hosts set prices and room sizes, controls likely to be imitated by the many social audio platforms proliferating this year. Twitter tied the new feature to the unveiling of the new Super Follows option, which lets influencers create a subscription fee for access to exclusive content on their Twitter page. Ticketing Spaces Not just anyone can offer tickets, and the bar is significantly higher than the 600 followers needed to host any Twitter Spaces room. You need to have at least 1,000 active followers and to have hosted a minimum of three Spaces over the last month. Ticketing is also limited to those over 18 who live in the U.S. for now. Those interested in applying can check their eligibility and submit a request in the Twitter app’s sidebar under monetization. Those hosts who Twitter approves can then start creating and scheduling their rooms. The host can set the ticket price for any dollar amount from $1 to $999 and designate how many can be sold. Twitter Spaces could have…
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