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Twitter to take on YouTube by offering higher compensation for video content
Teslarati ^ | November 21, 2022 | Maria Merano

Posted on 12/12/2022 12:11:29 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Elon Musk shared some stats and details about Twitter recently, including teasing the idea of compensation for video content on the platform, similar to YouTube.

Musk tweeted that his newly acquired social media platform added 1.6 million active users daily in the past week, reaching another all-time high. The new owner and CEO of Twitter is trying to improve the platform with an increasingly small number of employees over the past few weeks.

He also teased that Twitter would compensate video creators for their quality videos higher than YouTube. The hint reveals Elon Musk’s future plans for Twitter. The Tesla CEO also stated that written content could be monetized on Twitter as well.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; google; musk; truthsocial; twitter; youtube
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Yesssssssssss! So sick of YouTube censorship.
1 posted on 12/12/2022 12:11:29 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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Are they going to start allowing long videos? Right now I believe they only allow very short clips.


2 posted on 12/12/2022 12:13:59 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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It's all well and good till Twitter starts censoring videos like YouTube...
3 posted on 12/12/2022 12:14:29 PM PST by cranked
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4 posted on 12/12/2022 12:15:31 PM PST by cranked
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Yup! And not only will we get much longer videos but much longer posts will be coming.


5 posted on 12/12/2022 12:15:46 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Sam the Scam and the Cryptos )
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He also teased that Twitter would compensate video creators for their quality videos

I guess that leaves you out.

Both on the "quality" and the "creator" aspect.

I reckon you'll still be scrounging leftover chicken out the dumpster behind KFC.

6 posted on 12/12/2022 12:18:10 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: cranked

The streamer war started with rumble and youtube. Twitter marches in like it is poland summmer of 1940, but these reds have power and billions. Conservatives get your ring lights turned on, prep the edit bay, it is on!


7 posted on 12/12/2022 12:18:58 PM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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Twitter v Google... let the throw down begin


8 posted on 12/12/2022 12:19:36 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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True, though, I have not seen nor witnessed Rumble censoring videos, yet.


9 posted on 12/12/2022 12:20:53 PM PST by cranked
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I've always wanted YouTube to get some serious competition.

I like Rumble but they are still focused mostly on podcasts talking about politics. That doesn't appeal to me. I need a place where I can watch music videos, how-to videos and things like documentaries, vintage movies, etc.

Twitter is in a great position to become a competitor in short time. If they are adding 1.6 million new users a day, that's pretty amazing.

10 posted on 12/12/2022 12:23:53 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,712,890 | Truth Social | 87,865,341 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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Take THAT google!


11 posted on 12/12/2022 12:28:34 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Rumble ended up as a conservative oasis because they were in the right place at the right time.

I’m starting to see other videos show up on Rumble. Encourage the YT channels you watch to start uploading on Rumble.


12 posted on 12/12/2022 12:41:14 PM PST by bobcat62
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You tubes “algorithm “ is absolute krap. I like to have background noise while working and sleeping, but if anything remotely political in any way is selected, if you allow it to autoplay it will every single time eventually find its way to Robert Jordan. Not just a random video once in a while, but once one gets in it will queue up every video ever made by him for the next 24 hours straight. Nothing that I ever intentionally click on ever autoplays, ever. Even on non political subjects, if I click on a channel that literally has thousands of videos, rather than randomly shuffle through them, they go straight to three or four different videos and repeat then adnauseum. I miss the early days of youtube where autoplay introduced me to all sorts of different channels discussing different topics with different viewpoints. Does rumble have autoplay? I haven’t seen one.


13 posted on 12/12/2022 12:42:29 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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I reckon you'll still be scrounging leftover chicken out the dumpster behind KFC.

Said the odor-challenged troll who lives off recycling beer cans for change.

14 posted on 12/12/2022 12:44:04 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Sam the Scam and the Cryptos )
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Turning Twitter into a Tik Tok alternative...


15 posted on 12/12/2022 12:48:49 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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I wish Musk would make another search engine, one that isn’t censored like Google.


16 posted on 12/12/2022 12:49:28 PM PST by jimwatx
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As much as I dislike u-toob for their politics I absolutely despise twit for the way they organize, advertise and display their videos. I’m always gratified when FReepers post links to the same video that they found at an alternate location.


17 posted on 12/12/2022 12:55:00 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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. . . not to mention Youtube has begun running two negrophiliac ads before every video.


18 posted on 12/12/2022 1:11:51 PM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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I have learned how to do all sorts of home repairs on YouTube.
I learned how to fix the cracks in my plaster ceilings in my house by watching videos.

A buddy was telling me just yesterday how he learned how to repair old clocks by watching YouTube. It is his main retirement hobby.

Virtually, any car repair has a video on YouTube.
I changed the head gasket on my 1999 John Deere lawn tractor after watching a YouTube video.

Recently, I have been watching old Dire Straits and Stevie Ray Vaughn concert videos.

Every morning I watch Gutfelds and Tucker’s monolog. Tomorrow morning I will watch the highlights(lowlights) of the Pat’s MNF game from tonight.


19 posted on 12/12/2022 1:19:47 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Try Duck, Duck Go on a Firefox Mozilla browser.


20 posted on 12/12/2022 1:21:18 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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