India is one of the biggest markets for the microblogging platform Twitter. The country is the 3rd largest market for Twitter after the US and Japan. The number of Twitter users in the country had seen a growth in the year 2020 of more than 70%. The company has launched a new feature in India called Tip Jars. Let’s look at more information regarding the feature.
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What is the Tip Jar feature on Twitter?
How to use Razorpay for receiving tips on Twitter?
Other upcoming features on Twitter
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The social media giant, Twitter on 24 June 2021, has released a new feature on its platform which is called Tip Jar. This feature will be available on the microblogging platform in India where the users can contribute money in the form of tips to their favorite content creator or an organization according to their choice and wish.
The social media platform has collaborated with the Indian-based payment gateway in order to roll out this feature.
What is the Tip Jar feature on Twitter?
Twitter had announced that it has added Razorpay as an option to its Tip-Jar feature in order to make it easier for Indians in order to send and receive cash gifts from their followers or the users who love their content.
The feature is available only for a handful of people that include creators, journalists, community leaders, experts, public figures, and currently can be used by Twitter users on iOS and Android devices. The service is also available within spaces on Android devices.
Tip Jar was first introduced in May and users have the option to tip their favorite content creators using various payment gateways such as PayPal, Patreon, Bandcamp, Venmo, Cash App and now the company recently added Razorpay as well.
The Twitter users that use Razorpay in order to tip their content creators can send money through a wide range of options such as UPI, Debit Card, Credit Card, Net Banking, Wallets, etc. The Tip jar services in the country are available in many languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, Tamil, and Bengali. This will enable to feature to be accessible around the country.
Another important tip to note about Tip Jar is that the microblogging platform does not take any cut or a percentage from the money tipped to the content creators. All the money that is tipped can be kept by the content creator itself.
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How to use Razorpay for receiving tips on Twitter?
If you are one of the content creators who come under the above mentioned category, you can follow the below steps in order to receive tips using Razorpay from your followers.
- The first step is to create a Razorpay account.
- Then you will have to turn on the Tip Jar feature on Twitter, allow tips and click on Razorpay.
- Then you will have to paste the custom suffix from the payment page of your dashboard.
- You will have to copy the URL and it will get placed on the Tip Jar advertisement.
Other upcoming features on Twitter
Twitter has been trying ways through which content creators can monetize through the social media platform. The company is said to be currently testing ticketed spaces where the users host a Twitter Space where they can charge the users or followers who are interested to attend with an amount as low as USD 1 to as high as USD 999.
The company is also working on super follow through which the content creators can earn a monthly revenue by offering interaction and extra content through a monthly subscription process. The ticketed space and Super Follow feature are still being tested by the company and haven’t been rolled out widely.
Conclusion
The Tip jar feature that is introduced by Twitter is a move from the company to help people to earn or monetize their content on the social media platform. Twitter is one of the major social media platforms in the entire world.
FAQ
How does Twitter make revenue?
Twitter divides its revenue into two categories: the sale of advertising services, which constitutes the vast majority of the company's revenue, as well as data licensing and other services.
What is Twitter's net worth
Twitter's net worth is estimated to be about $35 billion. Twitter's main sources of income are Ad and data licensing.
Do celebrities get paid to tweet?
Yes, many athletes and celebrities earn through Twitter.
Author: Alan Joseph
Source : https://startuptalky.com/twitter-tip-jar-feature/
Date : 2021-06-26T05:15:39.000Z