Apparently if you send someone a tip with this they get your mailing address as part of the receipt. <a href="https://twitter.com/racheltobac/status/1390409874006183936" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/racheltobac/status/1390409874006183936</a><p>This is a PayPal issue, but Twitter are responding by adding a warning so people know it will happen: <a href="https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1390423761183117312" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1390423761183117312</a>?
I remember in 2017 in /r/dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1/10th of a penny) for "such many random and much wow comment in forum". This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot.<p>This idea <i>will</i> most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the Twitter mob to just tear the other side apart. I don't know.
I think it’s quite smart to launch this sans-crypto to avoid headlines, ensure the feature works well and is received well, and then add additional payment methods weeks or months later.<p>I do wonder if this hurts or helps twitter as a product tho - I can’t say I’ve been enjoying the recent “only so-and-sos friends can reply to this post” trend. But now we will see very popular tweets with no discussion allowed that is also earning money from sycophants? I can’t say that makes me excited to jump on twitter - although clearly this doesn’t sway a large number of users off Facebook either so maybe I’m not the target market here... it does seem strange though that after a decade of talk about social media bubbles, we seem to be reinforcing them explicitly!<p>At what point is a read-only tweet, shown only to those who already agree and which asks for donations, any different from televangelism? It feels about as alien to discussion (presumably the purpose of twitter) as one can imagine.
Twitter seems to be ignoring the development of its website entirely. This is not the first feature that’s been exclusive to just the mobile apps:<p>- Fleets, launched months ago, is still app-only<p>- Spaces, the Clubhouse clone, is also app-only.<p>- Now Tipping.<p>- Even the uncropped images that launched yesterday (for vertical images) is app-only.
Is there a way to link to the Tip Jar, or do you have to direct people to your profile? When I've seen people offer tip jars, it's at the end of a long thread and takes people to a payment service. I wonder how "Tip Jar is on my profile" would perform against a link in a tweet.
Wonder if / how this will change people's sharing behavior. A common scenario like:<p>People like to do X for free (status, virtual points) but if a way to get paid while doing so is introduced, the dynamics change. People that don't get paid much (overall, or relatively compared to their peers) feel bitter even though the outcome is exactly the same as before but they get discouraged, stop sharing, stop doing it for free etc.
I'm not even using twitter and I know that the crypto community has a bunch of coins and twitter bots [1] that implement tipping way way better and also likely did this years ago.<p>The key part of making it better is that everyone can receive tips with these systems you dont need a payment provider that matches or in fact you dont need one at all.<p>Ofc you cant cash out without but you can tip what you got to others. The same "dollar" can move around to hundreds of people like that without any PayPal or whatever in between that would suck it up by removing fees.<p>[1]For example xrptipbot.com also cross platform and works on reddit and discord too.
Seems like a lot of taps to send a tip.<p>I was expecting an experience closer to Tippin.me [1] where there's a click to tip, and another to confirm. Tippin.me, happens to be built on Bitcoin's Lightning Network so maybe Twitter will leverage Square's (also run by Jack Dorsey who's keen on Bitcoin) CashApp to do something similar in the future.<p>I could see the tip jar functionality go in the direction where a user deposits some amount of BTC to Twitter (opens up a LN channel with Twitter in the backend) and then a tap or click on the tip button results in a preset 100 sats tip.<p>[1] <a href="https://tippin.me" rel="nofollow">https://tippin.me</a>
I don't feel like tipping someone for making an observation or a joke. This means turning a conversation into an economic transaction. Is this where the world is going? Pathetic.
Have anyone ever actually sent or received a tip of any kind?
I've only ever once gotten a "donation" and it was $1, for SDL-Ball together with a message asking me in not so kind words to stop my pathetic e-begging :D
I once sent someone a few bitcoin, but that was in 2009 or 10.. ^_^
> Tip Jar is an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation on Twitter.<p>The conversation is mostly snarkiness and trolling. I really hope we don't start rewarding that with cash.
Social Media has a broken business model that does not respect its users. Any experiment that might result in better-aligned incentives for users and company is welcome!
how to make people even more angry with Twitter:
Allow us to tip the "Promoted" tweets so you don't see them again.<p>You're welcome (sorry)
> Tip Jar is an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation on Twitter. This is a first step in our work to create new ways for people to receive and show support on Twitter – with money.<p>I hope this will create an incentive for people to be less partisan and divisive and look for donators outside of their algorithmic bubble.
Wow, this is the end of Twitter. Everyone looking to make money will fill the platform up with garbage.<p>Neoliberalsim is turning you all into beggars.
Somebody has mentioned this about Patreon before. But couldn't a drug dealer now just sign up to Twitter and get Tips from their customers instead of cash?
> <i>*Payment service availability and features vary by region</i><p>Why do companies think they can compete with internet payment services that don't have any of these arbitrary restrictions placed upon them?
Just want to point out:<p>As it is implemented <i>currently</i>, the “Tip Jar” is literally just a list of hyperlinks. <i>Clean</i> hyperlinks, even.<p>If you need a handy example for trying it out: I’m @NeoYokel<p>I entered every link except CashApp because I don’t have that.<p>(DO NOT PAY ME. This is not a sly attempt to get you extremely wealthy hn readers to send me unsolicited cash.)