After including tipping together with its Tremendous Observe and different subscription choices, Twitter now seems to be engaged on a new ‘Awards’ option for tweets, which might probably present one other means for creators to generate revenue from their on-platform efforts.
As you may see on this picture, shared by reverse engineering professional Jane Manchun Wong, the brand new award possibility seems as a present icon within the decrease tweet operate bar. There’s additionally a microphone icon earlier than Wong’s person title on this instance, which seems to be related with Tremendous Follows, although what it truly means is just not clear as but.
Awards appears to be like just like Fb’s digital items, that are purchasable with Stars, its in-app foreign money to donate to creators, whereas YouTube additionally has its personal ‘Tremendous Stickers’ choice to facilitate the identical. TikTok additionally has reside items, whereas Reddit additionally has numerous gifting choices.
Awards on Twitter would probably serve the identical goal as these instruments, in offering one other, extra partaking method to donate to creators, which might assist to get the eye of your favourite customers, or simply help them for his or her efforts. However moderately than donating, you’d be capable to allocate an award or present primarily based on every particular person tweet – which may very well be nice if a tweet of yours goes viral, offering a method to immediate extra particular response.
We requested Twitter concerning the take a look at, and it supplied this assertion:
“We’re at all times wanting into new methods for individuals to have interaction with others on Twitter and don’t have additional data to share at the moment.”
So not a lot to go on, however primarily based on Wong’s historical past of discoveries that then make their means into the reside atmosphere, it may very well be coming a while quickly.
