Monetized on X (Twitter) Today
@josediccus
Posted 3d ago · 3 min read
I finally got monetized on (Twitter) X today and had to do the proper KYC verification as well as setting up a stripe account, the process took over 3 hours for me to complete as it kept failing but I finally got it done.
X is no longer that platform it used to be about a year ago, the platform has become stricter to original creators. The algorithm now focuses on noise, I guess this is because they want to give more value to their advertisers.
Noisy posts are now rampant on the timeline though and one of those noisy posts are porn contents. 18+ rated contents, sex traps and all that. Infact users are now prohibited from using some certain slangs or words which actually appears like gaming the system, they no longer allow accounts do third party marketing.
They want all the marketing revenue coming in through their platform. Betting or contents related to ammunition are not allowed. They've recently started removing the monetisation of accounts that already started earning, and this makes me scared of the whole thing.
I've been very careful of things I say or how I say it, and this might not even save me, but I hope I've been clean enough to actually earn some money for myself without actually getting my monetization compromised for something I may have likely said.
The fear of losing it
It's one of those problems with building on a web2 space, you can get your monetization paused for absolutely no reason even after spending months or years of building on the platform and all that is gone. It's not like web3 is safe 100% either.
Security issue on web2 & web3
I worked a few months for 3.3k$ and all that money was stolen from me by a hacker. It's the wild west out there and only Blockchain like Hive has the highest security protocols, which is why a lot of people choose the security that comes with the Blockchain. It's why we have a whale account currently holding $1M of HBD and farming APR every month.
A lot of web3 platforms aren't secure either, but web platforms are a whole different kettle of fish. Which is why people can get deleted on Facebook, YouTube and even (X) Twitter no matter now hard they worked for it.
However these platforms pays you steady good money if you've built a following a following and spent a few years building an audience, but tndke monetization policies are so confusing which is why they can easy remove people.
At the moment it looks like Twitter is looking like the stricter of all of them. Funny enough, porn content creators are still earning a lot of money from posting porn, despite these strict policies. Porn contents were previously restricted, but recently they relaxed the rules which allowed influx of porn creators into the system, and many decent creators.
The former algorithm would favour creators who would do quality stuff, but now it's been completely different. However on the other hand, they've revamped their revenue program and it's not looking good as it used to.
Also monetization is the least of what you need to do. The hard work comes with actually getting paid. Sometimes you might need to work really hard without results. I might earn or not, infact there's a possibility I might even not get anything decent, but I hope to keep pushing, and God willing in a few months time, I hope I can get something decent.