I have a lot of great news about Twitter (now legally known as X.corp on paper) to share with you this week.  The vibe on Twitter is energizing, happy, and powerful.  No other social media has as many positive changes and potential benefits for users on the web.  

What is new this week?  Subscriptions Have Opened Up to Include Millions of Accounts!

A fabulous program that will benefit many people was revealed around lunchtime on April 13th. 

Twitter users with at least 500 followers can, free of charge, apply to offer their followers a way to thank them for their efforts by simply activating “Subscriptions” for their account.  Previously, a user needed to have 10,000 followers.  

My take on this is that there are many accounts that provide valuable information daily and there are appreciative people who may like to Subscribe to them to show support.  

I’ll use my account as an example.  I use Twitter to share the articles I write for WhatsUpTesla and WhatsUpTwitter. I also use Twitter daily to share my enthusiasm for Tesla, Tesla AI, and Twitter 2.0.  The reason I offer Subscriptions on my account is mainly to allow a few of my followers to show appreciation for my efforts and to support this blog (Twitter Subscriptions is the main way I receive any currency to pay for part of the costs of the two publications I operate). Honestly, most of the content I exclusively provide for my followers are creative “Thank You” tweets and an occasional special article.  I am extremely grateful for this support and it means a lot to me.  

So if you are active on Twitter as a writer, artist or even a talented shitposter, I encourage you to go to “Monetization” in settings and activate Subscriptions. There are a few more details that make this an irresistible opportunity:

• You’ll be able to offer your followers both longform text and hours long video.
• Twitter will help promote your work.
• At any point, you may leave Twitter and take your work with you, there’s no obligation or contract to stay.
• Twitter generously agreed that (until April 2023), all profits will go to you. 

That last perk is HUGE for people who are already known creators (artists, writers, YouTubers, etc, etc), as it gives them an opportunity to prosper while being creative in their own way.  

I like being able to show appreciation to a few other people I know on Twitter.  I like being able to Subscribe to them because it shows I support them. One account I subscribe to, for example, gives all the proceeds to an organization that helps the homeless. The Providence House in Shreveport, Louisiana is a nonprofit that helped my friend Johnna Crider and her mother. When Johnna was only age 9-12 she formed good memories and relationships that last to this day because of the people at Providence House.  If you want to subscribe to Johnna you’ll also see her beautiful private tweets.  

There are also, in my opinion, going to be many people who, may want to Subscribe to someone they really like (examples might be Mr. Beast, and Marques Brownlee) and my hope is that citizen journalists will activate subscriptions.  

CONCLUSION

As you can see, there are many ways people are already being creative using the Subscription feature!  Here are some accounts I recommend trying out a Twitter subscription to:

Johnna Crider @JohnnaCrider1 (kind & thoughtful tweets with a saxophone flare and money goes to good use)

Elon Musk @elonmusk1 (who can resist?)

Shibetoshi Nakamoto @BillyM2k (best shitposter on Twitter)

Me @gailalfaratx (I had to put this here, haha)

_{Gail Alfar, author. Exclusive to What’s Up Twitter – April 14, 2023. All Rights Reserved. My goal as an author is to support Twitter 2.0 (X.corp) and Elon Musk in both making lives better on Earth for humans and becoming a space-fairing civilization. I write these articles, I will not use AI of any form to write them, they are time-consuming and I appreciate the opportunity to do this.}