Aqueel

What @elonmusk just did with Twitter ads is brilliant. He just made every major creator on the platform a financial beneficiary. When Twitter sells ads, the community gets a slice. Alignment of incentives. Same thing with paid subscriptions. When creators get paid, Twitter gets paid. Win/win. Sure, both of these features are slapdash, but if they make Twitter users wealthy, they will hold their users and incentivize even more activity on the platform. For example: I've always viewed Twitter as a lark. Something I do to share random thoughts and ideas and connect with people, but certainly not a revenue stream. But, as of now, I get paid $155,000 per year via my Twitter paid subscribers PLUS a cut of the ad revenue. That's for tweeting while I sit on the toilet or wait at the dentist a few times a week. Now, I could move to Threads, but lets say I have 235,000 followers here and 2,000 followers on Theads. Sure, I can build to 235,000 on Threads, but it's going to take me forever. Or I can stay on Twitter and make $200k-$1M+ just for tweeting. Really smart. Maybe he'll make that $44 BILLION back after all.