Twitter has rebranded a feature called subscriptions, which used to be called super follows and it basically allows Twitter users to subscribe to exclusive content from specific Twitter creators. The service was never able to really make it catch on but now the CEO is focusing his efforts on it. He's using it himself and also subscribing to other users who are using it like who've turned on subscriptions on their own account for their fans to subscribe to. And he's making something like 95, 96, $97,000 a month from this.
Paris Marx is joined by Matt Binder to discuss Elon Musk’s first six months at Twitter and how his obsession with blue checks has decimated the company’s finances.
Matt Binder is a reporter at Mashable and the host of Scam Economy and Doomed. Follow Matt on Twitter at @MattBinder.
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