Fri. 07/14 – Twitter Starts Showing People The Money

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Elon has made good on his promise to share ad revenue with some big Tweeters. The fact that you can’t use Threads in Europe continues to be weird. Meta unveils a new AI image generator that they say is significantly smaller and better. Why AI is at the center of the Hollywood strike part eleven. And one choice Weekend Longreads Suggestion. Links: Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators (TechCrunch) Musk's Twitter sues four Texas entities for data scraping, seeks damages (Reuters) Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (TechCrunch) Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class (TechCrunch) Exclusive: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI (Axios) Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (The Verge) Here’s the new default font for Microsoft Outlook and Word: Aptos (CNBC) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Apple, Lionel Messi and the $2.5bn question: What’s next? (The Athletic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Well, welcome to the Tech Name Ride Home for Friday, June 14th, 2023.
0:07.7	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.2	Elon has made good on his promise to share ad revenue with some big tweeters. The fact that you
0:14.6	can't use threads in Europe continues to be weird. Meta-unveils a new AI
0:19.1	image generator that they say is significantly smaller and better.
0:23.0	Why AI is at the center of the Hollywood Strike Part 11
0:27.0	and One Choice Weekend Long Reed's suggestion for you.
0:30.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:39.0	Everyone's been waiting for a counter move and here it is I guess. Twitter has begun paying Twitter Blue Creators who earned more than 5 million
0:44.6	impressions per month for the last three months a revenue cut from the ads that
0:49.5	ran beside the replies to their tweets. This is one of those things Elon said Twitter was going to the to owner Elon Musk, the first round of Creator Payouts, will total $5 million and will be
1:04.4	cumulative from the month of February onward.
1:07.5	These payouts will be delivered via Stripe.
1:09.8	From what some large creators are sharing on Twitter. These payouts are substantial.
1:14.0	Writer Brian Krasnstein, who has about 750,000 followers, claims that Twitter paid him $24,305.
1:21.0	SK, a creator with about $230,000
1:24.0	claims to have earned $2,236 from Twitter.
1:28.0	Political commentator Benny Johnson, with 1.7 million followers, said he earned earned 9,546.
1:34.8	Twitter's payouts are determined by tweet impressions.
1:37.2	Babylon B writer Ashley St. Clair, 710,000 followers said that she earned 7,153 dollars and according to her napkin math, she
1:45.8	had around 840 million impressions from February through July.
1:50.5	That would make her rate about 0.0085 in terms of a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Amalgamated Internets, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Amalgamated Internets, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.