Twitter Inc. It will now allow people to tip their favorite content creators with bitcoin and will also launch a fund to pay certain users who host audio chat rooms on its Spaces feature, the company said.
The company’s tipping feature – now called Tips – Including crypto – is rolling out to everyone with more payment options to choose from. Users can leave links to their payment profiles in their bios and in their Tweets. Tips make it easy to do this, offering a fixed location, on their profile, where they can link to the Cash App, Patreon, Venmo and other platforms to get people to support them.
Coming to iPhones First
Twitter is rolling out to users on iOS first and then coming up with tips for people Android in the coming weeks.
How does this work?
Users will know an Account Tips has been turned on if you see this icon next to the Follow button on the profile page. Tap on the icon, and you’ll see a list of payment services or platforms that the account has enabled, and you can choose whichever one you want. The services available so far are:
* band camp
* Cash App
* chipper
* Patreon
* Razorpay
*Wealthsimple Cash
* Venmo
Twitter is adding a few new services to the list: GoFundMe — an online fundraising platform — and PicPay – A Brazilian mobile payment platform.
Once the user taps on the service they wish to use, they will be taken to the selected app from Twitter to send funds. Twitter says it doesn’t take any deductions from it.
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