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Last year , the troupe formerly sleep together as Twitter open up up its advertising revenue - sharing program to world creator , leave them to monetise their invoice via the ads swear out in the replies to their posts . This incentivized creators to brand things that yield conversation , like memes and trick , blistering takes , controversial opinion , and more . X did say there would be guardrails on what could be monetize in this way and prevented Godhead from generating taxation from posts featuring sexual content , fury , deplorable activity , play , drugs , alcoholic drink and “ get - rich outline , ” for representative .
Despite the restrictions , the program ’s launching had an impact on X ’s content , with its algorithmic “ For You ” feednow serving up moreof these viral posts , andsome creators initially reportingthey had earned revenue in the five- to six - bod range . Other creators make a more conservative approach to X , claiming the platform was still along means from being a major source of revenue , compared with the chance find on other social media apps .
X had saidthat Maker could only share tax revenue from “ verified ” substance abuser ’ organic impressions of ads displayed in the reply to their posts on X , which requires either the Premium or Premium+ subscription .
X owner Elon Musk highlighted the change to the Premium+ subscription in apostwhere he say , “ Your time is deserving it . ”
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The company has had a disputatious history with advertisers under Musk ’s leaders . Last year he told advertiser fleeing Adam over his controversial poststo “ go f — yourself , ” during an onstage consultation at the DealBook league . When advertisers take his advice and chose not to push on the platform , Musk sue them , alleging the advertizing boycott was somehow illegal . laughably , one of the arrangement X is now suing , GARM ( Global Alliance for Responsible Media ) , is the same one thatX had shoot a line return in July , place that it was committed to prophylactic and “ proud to be a part of the GARM residential area . ” ( On Thursday , the World Federation of Advertiserssaid it would haltGARM ’s activities as a result of the lawsuit ) .
Given its reliance on advertizing dollar mark in the approximate term , X ’s power toturn a profitcould be in question . But Musk intends for X to finally generate revenue in other ways , including by serving as a payments app — a change that is nearing , establish on code referencesfound in the web app . Unlike Twitter , Musk ’s X also face up a lot of competition from other services , including Meta ’s Threads , open reservoir Mastodon , and startups likeBluesky , Spoutible , Spilland others .
