[HN Gopher] X executive says creator monetization program may po...
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       X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be
       ended
        
       Author : jrflowers
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-10-15 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | techblueberry wrote:
       | "More harm than good"?
        
         | estimator7292 wrote:
         | Harm to profits/shareholders
        
       | popularonion wrote:
       | It makes complete sense and it would be for the best, therefore
       | it will never happen
        
       | lwansbrough wrote:
       | Not surprising at all this is happening if the intent is to make
       | X less awful. (Which is something Nikita Bier has been trying to
       | do since he was hired.)
       | 
       | Incentivizing content creation does at least two things: it puts
       | virality ahead of everything (quality, correctness, legitimacy)
       | and also creates disproportionately greater value for users in
       | poor or emerging economies. Earning a dollar or two from a post
       | means a lot more to someone from say, India, than it does to
       | someone from the US.
       | 
       | The result has been a huge increase in bots and "legitimate"
       | accounts farming engagement with rage bait and other content that
       | makes X unbearable. Hopefully this helps improve the content, but
       | wow what a massive misplay this whole thing was. Just a terrible,
       | terrible idea from the owner who understands nothing about what
       | made Twitter great.
        
         | digianarchist wrote:
         | I saw Nikita mention that X will flag account locations in
         | order to be transparent around a poster's origin [0] which is a
         | step in the right direction, though abandoning the creator
         | program altogether more so.
         | 
         | Nikita has had a rough couple of weeks. Targeted with the most
         | vile antisemitism I've seen after attempting to get doxxing
         | campaigns under control. That is hard to do when your boss is
         | overriding every decision you make.
         | 
         | I'm not sure X is salvageable at this point. The internet's
         | town square is starting to look at lot like a 1930s German beer
         | hall.
         | 
         | [0] - https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1978132382868988310
        
       | ashleyn wrote:
       | They're probably having trouble getting the ad revenue that would
       | pay for it.
        
       | Legend2440 wrote:
       | As soon as you start paying people to make content, you're not
       | social media - you're just media.
        
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