If you’re dying to get into someone’s Twitter space and are willing to pay for it, you might be lucky.
Twitter announced Thursday which was deploying Ticketed Spaces or live audio rooms with prepaid tickets that people can buy from some iOS users. Spaces is the Twitter version of Clubhouse, the only audio chat app it has dropped in popularity during the last two months. Unlike Twitter Spaces, Clubhouse does not allow users to sell tickets in advance, although it does allow people to send money to their favorite creators via virtual tip jar.
“We want to help people who create great spaces to earn $$$. Today, some hosts will be able to create entrances! “said the company in its official Twitter Spaces account. “We’re only experimenting with iOS for now, but we hope to get to everyone soon. He knows it takes us a while, but we want to do it right!”
Some might ask, why would you want to buy a ticket to a Twitter space? Twitter has a lot of ideas. Hosts can create Twitter spaces and hold workshops, conversations or meetings with loyal fans, the company points out.
Twitter open applications to access Ticketed Spaces in June. To be eligible, applicants must have hosted at least three spaces in the last 30 days and have at least 1,000 followers. Only people over the age of 18 can apply. Tickets can be sold for between $ 1 and $ 999; the price is at the discretion of the host. Hosts can also control how many people can enter their space, setting the limit at 5 or even 100, Twitter explains.
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People who buy tickets to Spaces will see it appear in their notifications and will also receive a Twitter reminder before the event begins.
While seeing the range that hosts can charge for tickets can cause dollar bills to start appearing in front of your eyes, it’s not all for hosts. Twitter takes away 3% of the host’s revenue in fees. Once a host earns more than $ 50,000 with Twitter’s monetization features, including Super Follows, the company will start charging a 20% fee. Since this is only available for certain iOS users, let’s not forget Apple’s 30% reduction in in-app purchases.
After doing the math, some may find that Ticketed Spaces is a legitimate way to make money. Others may conclude that it is not worth your time and effort. The most important factor, it seems to me, is whether people will want to spend more time online than they already do in this pandemic-plagued world.
God knows now there is nothing like shutting down the computer and taking off the headphones.