Twitter Develops Favorite Content Tipping Feature With Bitcoin

Twitter is constantly trying out new features to compete with other social media. (photo: doc. unsplash)

JAKARTA - Twitter Inc is planning to create a new feature that will allow people to tip their favorite content creators with bitcoin. Sources at the company Thursday, September 23 also stated, if the micro blogging company will also launch a fund to pay some users who host audio chat rooms on its Spaces feature.

The San Francisco-based company also added that it will test new ways to help users have a more secure experience on Twitter. For example like alerts when people enter a "hot" conversation or let them leave a tweet thread.

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— Twitter (@Twitter) September 23, 2021

The product announcement is part of Twitter's efforts to compete with rival platforms such as Alphabet Inc's Facebook and YouTube for popular content creators with large followings, and rebrand itself as a site where polarized discussions can thrive. .

Twitter users globally on iOS devices can now send and receive digital payments, previously limited to a small group of testers.

"We believe we can continue to drive the kinds of conversations that people want to see," Esther Crawford, product lead for creator monetization on Twitter, said at a briefing with reporters.

The feature will allow people to track and display their NFT holdings on Twitter, the company said.

In an effort to grow Spaces, Twitter will also launch a creator fund to provide financial, technical, and marketing support to users who host recurring audio programs on Spaces.

“The support will allow more Spaces hosts to better organize conversations and potentially get brand sponsorship deals,” said Andre Jean-Pierre, who served as an early beta tester for Spaces.

Twitter added it was exploring how to allow users to filter out certain words they don't want to see in their replies to tweets, which could be used to stop name-calling or abusive speech.