The social media giant, Twitter, recently announced that they would be giving their users the option to monetize their tweets. Twitter announced that they would be adding a fee to companies who choose to use their service. The fee is currently set to 1.99 cents per tweet.
I think a lot of people who pay for Twitter might be a little concerned that this is going to make it harder, not easier, to monetize. Twitter’s terms of service explicitly states that they don’t allow advertisers to post ads on their service. Twitter, though, did say that they would make it easier for advertisers to link to their Twitter accounts, allowing brands to get more exposure. It’s something that I think is important for brands to be aware of.
I disagree. The value of a fee is that if a person pays for their Twitter account on time they will have more money. So if I was to pay for a tweet over a minute, and then send it over to a friend, the fee would be $5,000 instead of $2,500.
Many people would think that ads are valuable because the ads would help get more money, but they wouldn’t. It’s important to understand that ads are a service that advertisers can subscribe to. Ads can be a great way to sell products and services and give them a chance to make more money than they could otherwise.
That being said, there is a cost to the service. In the US, the cost of a tweet is $0.10. The cost for a retweet is 50 cents and a retweet is usually sent to the person who the tweet was originally intended for (this would be the guy who clicked on it). The cost of a retweet is also the cost for the tweet itself, so if you make a retweet, you have to pay for it.
Twitter’s business model is to make money off of the people who use it. The problem with tweets is that they are very difficult for people to find, and if they don’t have someone following them or retweeting them, they will get buried. People will be annoyed that they’re not getting the attention they deserve, so they won’t retweet. This will cause them to lose followers, and so on.
For now, the service lets you tweet only for free, but in the future they will also pay for your tweets. I’m seeing a few people tweeting about this now, but if I’m not mistaken they are not only charging for tweets, they’re also providing free account protection.
The twitter fee seems to be a bit confusing. You can tweet for free, but if you don’t get any retweets or followers the server will pay you a fee. The reason for this is that twitter has been sued by a company for copyright infringement, and so the service is trying to figure out what to do about it. They have two options: charge for retweets or give free accounts access to the accounts of all users.
The first option would allow any user to have an account, since they werent using twitter for free. The second option would be to give users free account access if they want it (which is what Twitter did when they found out they were being sued for copyright infringement) but not charge for retweets since the servers will charge if they dont get any likes or followers.
Twitter is also considering charging for retweets, since they have a clear revenue stream from user-generated content. However, there are some drawbacks to this approach, namely that it might not work well on the large accounts that you get from Twitter. So they are considering giving some accounts free account access and then charging if users don’t like that option.