According to Elon Musk, the Twitter acquirer, all the payouts will be made to creators who have subscribed to Twitter Blue and have earned over 5 million tweet impressions each month for the last 3 months via Stripe which is currently available in 139+ countries including India
After announcing the microblogging platform’s plan to begin sharing advertising revenue with select verified creators on the platform for the ads served in the reply section of their posts, last month, Twitter has now begun the payouts.
As made clear by Elon Musk earlier, Twitter will be paying creators who have subscribed to Twitter Blue and have earned over 5 million tweet impressions each month for the last three months.
In a few weeks, X/Twitter will start paying creators for ads served in their replies. First block payment totals $5M.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2023
Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count.
Having said that, Twitter also took to its own microblogging platform to tweet about the new development.
Surprise! Today we launched our Creator Ads Revenue Sharing program.
— Twitter (@Twitter) July 13, 2023
We’re expanding our creator monetization offering to include ads revenue sharing for creators. This means that creators can get a share in ad revenue, starting in the replies to their posts. This is part of our…
According to certain creators who have received a notification with regards to the payment for the same from Twitter’s first block payment of $5 million, it is clearly mentioned that the payment is being made via Stripe which is currently available in 139+ countries including India.
Also, the specific creator’s portion will be deposited into the Stripe-connected account within the next three days.
Twitter just paid me almost $25,000. pic.twitter.com/oIJ2Ycymzb
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 13, 2023