Twitter Tips: How to Activate and Payment Methods

What are Twitter tips

When some time ago there was talk of the possibility of paying for Twitter, we all thought it would be for using the social network, to have a series of additional advantages such as new statistical tools, option to edit tweets (this may not never arrive), etc.

However none of that has happened yet, no Premium version or anything similar was released. What they have done from the blue bird social network is to add a feature that can change how users of the platform interact: tips .

Twitter tips are a way to generate value for the platform allowing its users to earn money for the content they share there. That is, there is already an official solution with which you can send money to those profiles that contribute something to you when you use the platforms or on the contrary, other users could send money to you if they believe that what you show through the different formats are interesting to them.

So, as you can imagine, this completely changes the idea that we have always had about what Twitter is. Not for the worse, because it will really be able to continue to be used in the same way and with the same restrictions that have always existed, but for the better because it will allow some users and profiles that develop high-quality threads or provide that differential content among many other things. can see financially rewarded for their work.

Who can make money from tips

The idea of the tip pot or Tip Jar as it would be said in English that Twitter has implemented is that anyone can earn money. Even so, despite being an already active feature, at the moment it is only available to some users from a certain number of countries.

That is, these Twitter tips are not something that anyone can use, but for the moment it is based on a selection that you are making. The criteria to be chosen? Well, there is no clear information, they are profiles selected by the company, although it seems that they are giving priority to those who speak English and even have the app configured in the same language.

What everyone can do is send payments to those users who have this feature and have activated the corresponding option.

How Twitter tips are paid

This new way of making money with Twitter is implemented natively in the social network, but payments are not made through a gateway or their own system but rather uses those of third parties.

That means that when you have the option to activate Twitter tips you will have to select which means of payment to use. And here it will be important and even advisable to have all of them available, because you never know if the user who considers leaving you a tip will have one or the other.

The payment systems compatible with Twitter tips are currently the following:

• Bandcamp
• Cash App
• Patreon
• PayPal
• Venmo

As you can see, most are very popular options and the vast majority may end up using PayPal or Patreon. Although there is something that seems to have to change in this system, because when making the payment for any of these options (PayPal in particular) you see too much data of the payer when receiving your tip. Data that on the other hand are more or less understandable by how the system works.

How to activate tips on Twitter

At this point, you may be interested in knowing how to activate Twitter tips on your own profile. So let’s see the process, but remember that the first thing that has to happen is that you have been chosen or that the moment has come when Twitter decides to enable the function for all its users or with an established selection criteria and not a little ” random “as in its inception.

In the event that your account is eligible for these payments, to activate the tips you will have to do the following:

1. Open the Twitter application on your mobile device
2. Access your user profile and then tap on the Edit profile option
3. Right at the end of all the usual fields that you can edit on your profile you will see a new option called Tips
4. Access it and when you are inside you will see a button to Allow tips
5. When you have activated the use of tips on Twitter, you will see the different payment systems available
6. Now you just have to configure the one or those you want to use. To do this, access and enter the username or data that each of them asks for.
7. Once everything is configured you will be ready to receive payments from other users

When a user enters your Twitter profile, they will see a new button appear, which is the one that allows you to send a payment or tip. So you no longer have anything else to do, or yes: continue creating quality content and adding value to Twitter so that whoever reads you has reasons to support you financially. A complicated challenge because we have been used to everything for free on the internet for many years.

The future of payments on Twitter

The arrival of tips on Twitter is just the beginning of a future for the social network where payments will be somewhat important . Because we have already commented on numerous occasions that today the only way to retain certain users within a platform is to offer them options so that they can monetize their work on it, whatever the type.

In some platforms, they are committed to advertising and the distribution of the income it generates, in others they are patronage options and now there is this of Twitter tips. Although the platform has planned more movements such as the integration of the newsletter after the purchase of getrevue or recently Scroll, which would give the option to create private groups.

In summary, that Twitter continues to advance to maintain its relevance, to be able to continue saying that the site on the internet where to know what is happening and now also achieve income for all those users most committed to its use.