Twitter seems to be smoothing things over with everyone, Apple in the lead. Indeed, in addition to the acquisition of Revue, the social network recently unveiled new upcoming features with evocative names: Spaces, Fleets and Super Follow. The latter will make it possible to buy exclusive content and to remunerate their creators.
Indeed, Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter head of consumer products, addressed this issue with the launch of Super Follow. Indeed, the vast majority use the mobile application on iOS and Android, far ahead of the website, and this subscription will generate an income that perfectly meets the category « in-app purchases » from the App Store (or from the Play Store).
No problem, says the Product Manager, « even though $ 10 goes down to $ 7 because of the 30%, it’s still $ 7 more than before. So don’t get me wrong, I wish it was $ 9 instead of $ 7, but at the end of the day it’s not something we have a direct influence on. So this is not one of our concerns at the moment. Today we want creators to make money. »
So here is a speech well outside those of Spotify or Epic Games. But it seems that Twitter is more pragmatic and underlines certain advantages, such as public dissemination, simplicity of the system, reduction of fraud, a pre-established framework and a « workflows that make it all work together in a consistent way ».
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