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Tech CEO says Twitter needs to go ‘all in’ on subscriptions – MarketWatch

02/23/2021 by admin

Twitter’s days as a completely free platform could be ending.

According to comments made by CEO Jack Dorsey at the virtual Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on Feb. 10, 2021, subscriptions and other forms of payments could be coming to Twitter.

“The first thing we want to focus on is that economic incentive to people who are contributing to Twitter,” Dorsey, who is also the CEO of the digital payments company Square
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said at the conference. “That can come through a regular subscription, that can come through content unlock, that can come through tipping. There is a host of things and right now we are just studying and prioritizing what those things look like.”

Twitter
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-2.48%

has been free to join since it was founded in 2006.

The company has already begun making moves in the subscription world. In January, Twitter acquired newsletter service Revue, which allows creators to get payments directly from their Twitter audience — Revue takes a 5% fee for paid newsletters.

See also: Disney+ is finally streaming ‘The Muppet Show’: Here’s why some scenes — and whole episodes — are missing

Some think Twitter should make subscriptions a major component of their business plan, including Dan Burkhart, the CEO of Recurly, a company that provides billing subscription services for companies. Burkhart told MarketWatch he thinks Twitter should go “all in” due to the company’s unique structure.

“The top voices on Twitter end up driving orders of magnitude more traffic engagement than the rank and file,” Burkhart told MarketWatch. “When you have a product like that with such vast reach…with so many pockets of interest groups that create the peaks and valleys that is far and wide, you have the ability to stratify your sources of revenue.”

Burkhart cited positive investor reactions from subscription companies like Petco
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,
Snowflake
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-7.02%

and Lemonade
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-7.63%

as proof there has never been a better time to build around subscriptions. All three companies went public in the past 12 months, and subsequently posted strong openings.

One of the payment features that Twitter’s Dorsey mentioned recently was tipping, something Burkhart agreed could work for the platform.

“There’s absolutely room for membership-based access to premium content, and tipping is a nice degree of freedom off that.”

Recurly, which provides billing services for large subscription companies like Twitch TV, Showtime and BarkBox, also works with Twitter on a small portion of its ad products.

Last week, Twitter’s stock hit an all-time high after 11 consecutive days of gains. 

The social media giant posted revenue north of $1 billion on its latest earnings call, a 28% increase year over year. Twitter shares have gained 50.5% over the past month, as the S&P 500
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-0.77%

 has risen 1.53%.

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