Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, February 26, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter just wants to give us everything all of a sudden sudden including charging for tweets, sort of groups

based on interest, and even blocking and muting accounts.

Google gives Devs a sleep API.

Why has last pass decided to piss everyone off all the sudden? Why

Jowme is the up-and-comer to keep your eye on and of course the weekend long

rate suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. As the great Ashley Mayer tweeted last night, quote,

it's like Twitter had its entire product roadmap in drafts for years and finally hit send all end quote

Twitter last night announced super follow a feature to let users charge for tweets

and a community's feature to let users charge for tweets and a communities feature to let users create and join

groups based on specific interests. So monetizing followers a la twitch or any number

of things like Patreon and and Facebook groups, but for Twitter,

basically, quoting the verge.

The payment feature called Superfollows will allow Twitter users to charge followers and give

them access to extra content.

That could be bonus tweets, access to a community group, subscription to a newsletter, or a

badge, merely indicating your support. In a mock-up

screenshot Twitter showed an example where a user charges $4.99

per month to receive a series of perks. Twitter sees it as a way to

let creators and publishers get paid directly by their fans.

Twitter also announced a new feature called Communities which appear to be its take on something

like Facebook groups.

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