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🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

Twitter launched ad-revenue sharing with creators. Blue subscribers who have 5m+ Tweet impressions per month are eligible, and the first round of payouts totaled $5m. A nice cost-saving caveat by Twitter is that only ads served to verified users count in the payout calcs 🥸

This feature’s been in the works for several months, but given the success of Threads I’d be shocked if Musk hadn’t sped up the timeline. There’s no doubt that ad-revenue sharing helps with creator retention, but ~$300m debt repayments can make it hard to be too generous…

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• Apple launches a full-page screenshot feature on iOS

• Salesforce to increase prices by up to ~10%

• Google launches Calendly-style availability sharing

• Google ships NotebookLM, an AI-powered notes app

• Reddit kills its Gold awards system

General and early-stage

• Telegram launches in-app crypto payments for merchants

• Pearpop ships a tool to let brands turn UGC into paid ads

• Grammarly to kill its text-editor SDK

• Stability AI launches a sketch-to-image tool

• Beehiiv ships an AI writing assistant for newsletter creators

🔍 Other good finds

• The craft. Better approaches to evaluating PM performance

• Clarity. Judge rules that Ripple’s XRP was “sometimes” a security

• A trade. Associated Press strikes news-sharing deal with Open AI

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol