Twitter’s latest beta update introduces support for providing content creators with tips on Bitcoin using the “Tip Jar” feature Twitter featured earlier this year. Bitcoin is not yet available to select as a tip option for beta users, but the beta code suggests that Twitter is in the process of deploying it.
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When the Tip Jar was first introduced, Twitter allowed users to add Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, PayPal and Venmo links to their Twitter profile, but there will soon be a Bitcoin option. The addition of a Bitcoin tip option comes after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told investors in July that Bitcoin was important to the company and would reach the Tip Jar in the future.
Details of the latest beta version of Twitter indicate that users will be guided through a Bitcoin tutorial that includes details about the Bitcoin Lightning Network and the custody and non-custody Bitcoin portfolios.
Twitter gives Strike, Blue Wallet and Wallet of Satoshi as examples of custody portfolios and Muun, Breez, Phoenix and Zap as examples of custody portfolios. Twitter also informs users that a Strike account is required. “We use Strike to generate Bitcoin Lightning invoices, so you will need to log in to your account to accept Bitcoin tips,” the text reads.
It looks like Twitter is also working on the “Cheer”, “Haha”, “Hmm”, “Like” and “Sad” reactions to tweets that users will be able to activate by pressing and holding the current Like button.
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Bitcoin support for tips is limited to the beta version of Twitter at this time and is not yet available to all beta users, so it is not yet clear when the Bitcoin feature will see an official version . There is also no word on when the new reactions will be launched.