Elon Musk wants YouTubers to move to Twitter for 10% more pay YouTube: PewDiePie, LudwigTranscripts from a staff Q&A revealed that Elon Musk told Twitter employees to convince high-profile YouTubers to join his social platform with a 10% pay increase incentive as the streaming wars rage on. Twitter is now in Elon Musk\u2019s hands after his months\u2019 long purchase, fraught with drama, finally concluded in late October. Musk quickly implemented new changes to the platform, the most notable among them tweaks to its verification system, which now allows anyone to purchase a checkmark for $7.99 a month via Twitter Blue subscriptions. Although several top-tier influencers have complained about these changes, Musk reportedly wants to bring YouTubers over to the platform amid conversations about increasing video length on the site. In transcripts provided by the Verge from a Thursday staff Q&A at Twitter, Musk proposed changes to the platform\u2019s video features, theorizing that creators would have more incentive to post directly to Twitter if they could post their entire videos, rather than linking out to their content on YouTube. Musk asks Twitter employees to convince YouTubers to join platform \u201cProvided they are able to post their video on Twitter and monetize the video at least to the same degree as on YouTube, then naturally, they would just post their video on Twitter as well,\u201d Musk said during the call. \u201cBut right now, content creators cannot post the length of video that they would like to post and they cannot monetize it, which means they cannot pay the bills.\u201d That\u2019s not all; in the transcript, Musk also proposed approaching YouTubers with exclusive contracts to upload content on Twitter with a 10% pay increase from their current deals. \u201cLet\u2019s just get a bunch of content creators that we think are cool on YouTube and say, \u2018Hey, would you consider putting your content on Twitter, and we\u2019ll pay you 10% more than YouTube and see how it goes?’\u201d Musk continued. \u201cPlease do it. Let\u2019s take action \u2026 So if you can do it after this meeting, I would do it after this meeting.\u201d For now, it\u2019s unclear where the future of Twitter\u2019s video content lies \u2014 but Musk is clearly interested in implementing a creator-focused approach as he continues to tweak the site. This news follows the re-implementation of the site\u2019s \u201cofficial\u201d status for previously verified members, which Musk had initially rolled back after implementing his Twitter Blue verification subscription method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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