Twitter works on a subscription service where users would pay for special content posted by high profile accounts. The platform founded by Jack Dorsey announced the potential new ‘Super Follows’ service during its annual investor meeting, in which he explained that it is targeting 315 million users by 2023. Twitter currently makes money from promoted ads and posts, with Super Follows likely to add more revenue modeled on YouTube. “Exploring audience funding opportunities will allow creators and publishers to be supported directly by their audience,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
Twitter is not what it used to be (better)
by Riccardo Luna
According to the specialized site The Verge, Twitter showed investors an example of a $ 4.99-per-month subscription that the user would pay to receive content from special accounts. The launch of this subscription content feature – of which no timing has been disclosed, however – would be the second major change to the platform since the first tweet was launched 15 years ago, on March 21, 2006. opened to the public on July 15 of the same year). The first big change was the extension of the fonts, from the famous 140 in the beginning to the 280 fonts in 2017.
“We are rethinking our service, behaviors and features that our product encourages or discourages when people join the conversation on Twitter,” the spokesperson added. In meeting with investors, the company also said it is working on another function that gives the ability to create and join interest-based groups.
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