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Re: Tip Jar

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Post by dusted »

anonytrary wrote: post #53

I remember in 2017 in /r/dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1/10th of a penny) for "such many random and much wow comment in forum". This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot. This idea will most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the…

I've tried giving away doge on that subreddit, most people believe receive addresses to be too private information to share, I managed to give out 10 out of the 50 I had allocated for the experiment :D

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Post by op03 »

TeeMassive wrote: post #72

> Tip Jar is an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation on Twitter. This is a first step in our work to create new ways for people to receive and show support on Twitter – with money. I hope this will create an incentive for people to be less partisan and divisive and look for donators outside of their algorithmic bubble.

You can bet the russians and chinese will be busy tipping the biggest buffoons on all sides just to stir the pot. Right now they do it with Likes and Followers.

So the most misguided people keep pointing at the counts to justify whatever they say, do or think.

Before Twitter finding a large bunch of such people, characterized by 2 traits (1. they have no idea how misguided they are 2. they have endless energy and can spend 24x7 broadcasting bullshit) was very hard. Now you just have to search for a particular hashtag that signals crazy and tip the people with the highest posting frequencies.

As long as you can find more people than the number that work at Twitter support you have ready made chaos injection system.

No one seems to have any issues that the capability exists to impose such random ignorant reward mechanics at population scale. Ignorance is bliss.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by Toutouxc »

ziml77 wrote: post #59
simonw wrote: post #4

Apparently if you send someone a tip with this they get your mailing address as part of the receipt. https://twitter.com/racheltobac/status/1390409874006183936 This is a PayPal issue, but Twitter are responding by adding a warning so people know it will happen: https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1390423761183117312 ?

Yep PayPal is awful about this stuff. I have a friend who's deadname was leaking through PayPal reciepts. They couldn't change it because PayPal insisted on showing the name of the account holder which was validated through the bank account linking. To protect them I now manage the account they have people send payments and donations to. It's suboptimal but it's the only way we can be totally sure their deadname does…

Today's ten thousand: "Deadnaming" is apparently calling a transgender person by the old name they abandoned, a "deadname" being the name of their former identity.

IMO that's a weird term.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by lottin »

I don't feel like tipping someone for making an observation or a joke. This means turning a conversation into an economic transaction. Is this where the world is going? Pathetic.

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Post by radiKal07 »

pfundstein wrote: post #37
jonny_eh wrote: post #7

How do they avoid giving 30% to Apple? I guess there's a carve-out for P2P cash, like Venmo? Is this why they're not taking a cut?

According to App Store rules, if an in-app payment all goes to the creator with zero platform cut, then Apple foregoes the 30% fee.

> On Android, tips can also be sent within Spaces.

Then why they couldn't do this on iOS as well?

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Post by dewey »

lottin wrote: post #84

I don't feel like tipping someone for making an observation or a joke. This means turning a conversation into an economic transaction. Is this where the world is going? Pathetic.

Who says you have to? There's a lot of artists, people reverse engineering things or people writing up historic events on Twitter. Just like on Patreon you support the person because you like what they are doing, not a random meme account because they posted a funny repost.

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Post by elisaado »

lottin wrote: post #84

I don't feel like tipping someone for making an observation or a joke. This means turning a conversation into an economic transaction. Is this where the world is going? Pathetic.

Think of it as giving someone on reddit an award... /s

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Post by paxys »

captn3m0 wrote: post #71

Twitter seems to be ignoring the development of its website entirely. This is not the first feature that’s been exclusive to just the mobile apps: - Fleets, launched months ago, is still app-only - Spaces, the Clubhouse clone, is also app-only. - Now Tipping. - Even the uncropped images that launched yesterday (for vertical images) is app-only.

It makes sense when you consider that all the successful services they are copying (Instagram, Snapchat, Clubhouse) are app-only.

Re: Tip Jar

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Post by Y_Y »

FDSGSG wrote: post #45
putsjoe wrote: post #34

Somebody has mentioned this about Patreon before. But couldn't a drug dealer now just sign up to Twitter and get Tips from their customers instead of cash?

A drug dealer could also get cheese from their customers instead of cash. Would that make sense? About as much as using twitter tips, I guess.

It would be a (flimsy) excuse for you to pay them, when in fact you are paying them for drugs.
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