New Delhi: Elon Musk on Saturday urged Twitter users to become verified customers, saying they could earn thousands of dollars a month by sharing ad revenue. Without explaining how they could do this without having more than 10,000 followers and registering 5 million impressions per month — two key conditions for making money through ad revenue sharing on Twitter — he asked them to join the Twitter Blue paid subscription.
“Many accounts on this platform can earn thousands of dollars per month if they become verified customers”.
“Becoming a verified customer for $7/month (annual plan) takes 2 minutes,” he added.
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Several users attacked him saying they have been waiting for months to get verified accounts. Others slammed him for not making any money despite having millions of monthly impressions.
“I have Twitter Blue and 20-30 million impressions per month for at least the last six months. What should I do to get some advertising money? Thanks in advance,” one Twitter user replied to Musk.
Musk also said discretionary payments are more complicated, “but ad revenue share savings will apply from February”.
“You’ll also get paid to show ads soon when others view your profile page, almost double the payout,” the tech billionaire added.
Last week, he said the micro-blogging platform would “soon” share ad revenue from profile page views. He acknowledged that Twitter is still cash-flow negative, “due to a 50 percent decline in advertising revenue and a heavy debt burden”.
“We need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” he posted last week.
