Users can soon earn money from Twitter, says Elon Musk

Twitter chief executive officer Elon Musk on Monday said the micro-blogging platform is "spinning up subscriptions" so users can "charge" their followers for specific content.

When one user posted a long tweet with the new Blue feature that allows subscribers to create tweets of up to 4,000 characters, Musk replied, "Good use of long tweet! Next update will allow much longer tweets with basic formatting, so you can post any content on Twitter."



"We're also spinning up subscriptions, so you can charge people for some content and they can easily pay with one click," Musk added.

Some users expressed their thoughts on Musk's post.

While one user asked, "Charging to read a tweet? Or paywall?", another commented, "Great idea. Now an author can publish his entire book on Twitter perhaps one chapter at a time. Leave the first few tweets as free and rest paid."

The upcoming feature can turn out be an opportunity for users to earn money from their followers on the micro-blogging platform.

Meanwhile, last week, the micro-blogging platform announced it will no longer allow non-Twitter Blue users to use text messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) method, after March 20.

Earlier this month, Twitter had confirmed that it will charge Rs 650 per month for its Blue service with verification on the web and Rs 900 on Android and iOS mobile devices in India.

The Twitter Blue rollout was in line with its chief executive officer Elon Musk's drive to push for monetisation on the platform.

Musk had previously suggested he would set the price of the subscription service taking into consideration the region that it was being rolled out in but that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Twitter Blue’s monthly cost is higher than Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music and several other global services which are generally available for cheaper in such markets to factor in the nations’ low GDPs.