It looks like Twitter Coins are Twitter's version of Reddit Coins. Use can use them to buy awards and give them to people.
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The innovation 🤯
Hey, that mind blown will cost you 1 Twitter Coin. You must pay up.
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Terrible addition. Twitter is dying
We may think it's dumb, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that normal users will eat it up. Reddit Coins seem to do well, right?
I can’t believe Reddit is still a thing.
Such a cancerous website
I used to enjoy reddit a lot. It's gone downhill over the past couple of years.
powertripping mods and just too woke for my liking
Reddit used to be my primary social media, so I’ve got a ton of karma and a very old account. To say it has gone downhill in the last few years is an understatement. 😅
It’s pure cringe
I wouldn’t be surprised if Elons desire the dominate the world will lead him down the Facebook libra path
Lol that seems most likely
Difficult to know how well they actually do, a lot of them handed out by admins to seed it on threads and get users to spend on them.
Would be interesting to learn if they had genuine reasons for not adopting lighting (or even doge coin for that matter). E.g. regulatory issues and the like.
I assume it was regulatory issues. This is the "easier" route? And here we are using Lightning...
Yeah, I suppose integrating lightning probably wouldn’t have been an issue for them. But getting the users an easy way to get sats from within the platform… different story. If you provide funding, you’re probably suddenly an exchange and subject to all sorts of regulation.
I don't see why they couldn't use Strike as a payment vendor for 'coins' beyond Stripe at some point
Probably regulatory. But the reason most probably is that they just want to make money.
They sell us tokens they control and generate out of thin air, and we can use them to give a shiny emoji type of reward. You feel good, you "reward" someone, and Elon takes your $$$
Are you fucking kidding me
lame
Wut… I thought everyone was just trolling about Twitter Coin, didn’t realise this was a thing.
Bahaha... Poor Elon. He's gotta get some of that 44B back.
Elon is leaning more and more high time preference with each bad decision he makes. Ever since his comments in support of Doge Coin I have such a hard time respecting the guy.
Visionary! Legendary! What a stunning use of this technology!!!!!
Wow. He will build his own coinmarketcap site next 😂
This is honestly embarrassing for Elon if he rolls it out.
Even shitcoiners must be cringing…
The intelligent are leaving in droves.
that's just as random as removing the 280 chars limit
It is certainly a strange move. They already have BTC tipping don't they?
but he can't make money on that.
Gonna be US only again. Someone has to post screenshots here when it goes live so I can watch 🍿
OP of this screenshot on Twitter is on nostr btw! #[2]
ooof!
Only a genius like Elon could invent a worse token than dogecoin. 🤡
steam has similar things
Ah so not even a shitcoin then, gotcha
Oh shit. Twitter coins is actually A THING?! I thought you guys were taking the piss!!! I’m doubling down efforts.
This move would be unfathomably retarded
