Adding to the growing list of radical implementations to improve Twitter’s bottom line and promote citizen journalism, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk announced that creators on the social media platform can now monetize their content.
Ever since Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the company has taken several drastic measures to turn itself into a profitable business, which include mass layoffs and introducing Twitter Blue subscriptions. While many previously-verified individuals retaliated the ask for a monthly fee to get a ‘Blue checkmark’ on Twitter, Musk saw it as a much-needed revenue stream for the company.