Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Ticketed Spaces and Superfollows begin to roll out on Twitter and depending on how you slice

it folks stand to make a ton of money or a ton of money for the app stores and

speaking of Apple launches a PR campaign defending the app Store on security grounds.

Microsoft becomes the second company to reach the $2 trillion club.

And you know about fishing scams, but let me introduce you to brushing scams.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Twitter has opened applications to test out ticketed spaces and super follows for a small number of users, among

them your friend and mine, Chris Messina.

More on that in a second, quoting the verge.

Twitter will select a small group of users to test its new monetization features, both of which

were announced earlier this year.

The Super Follows feature lets users charge $2.99, $4.99 or $9.99 per month for access to exclusive content.

Ticketed spaces lets them charge between $1 and $999 for access to one of Twitter's social audio rooms

and it offers extra features like setting a room size cap.

Users can see if they're eligible to apply by checking a new monetization option in the

mobile app sidebar.

Test group participants will initially keep 97% of the money they make with ticketed spaces or super follows after the fee that

iOS and Android charge for in-app purchases.

Twitter will increase its cut from 3% to 20% if a user makes a total of $50,000 on both systems.

Twitter's 20% commission is lower than that of some subscription platforms.

Amazon owned video service, Twitch takes a 50% cut from subscriptions

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