Publish-acquisition, Twitter’s $8 verification price isn’t the one new monetization plan on the horizon, with studies that new proprietor Elon Musk can also look so as to add a “Paywalled Video” function quickly.

In accordance with The Washington Post, the paid video function permits creators to cost for his or her content material and nets Twitter a lower of the price. The inner emails offered to the Washington Publish additionally spotlight authorized compliance issues, and Twitter’s Product Belief Group “recognized the chance as excessive.”

Twitter’s timeline for the function doesn’t give inside groups lengthy for compliance evaluate, with solely three days to evaluate its threat. Monetization choices embody pre-set quantities, with choices for $1, $2, $5, and $10 to disclose a video. Customers can nonetheless work together with the content material by liking or retweeting, however the video seems blurry till paid for.

The report couldn’t affirm if the paywall performance was a challenge launched earlier than or after Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion last week, however Musk hasn’t been shy about altering issues up. Along with these plans for a verification price, the platform might bring back Vine, and he’s already fired top executives.

On the precise platform, Musk has continued to defend his monetization plans, and mentioned the verification choice “can even give Twitter a income stream to reward content material creators.”

This can even give Twitter a income stream to reward content material creators

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

Twitter has a couple of choices to monetize a creator’s on-line presence already, together with the Tip Jar and Tremendous Observe. The Super Follow function is paid as a month-to-month price, with the creator offering an “additional stage of entry and bonus content material.” The distinction right here places blurred-out movies on consumer timlines, asking for a one-time transaction to view.

Andrea Shearon is a contract contributor for IGN protecting video games and leisure. She’s worn a number of hats over her seven-year profession within the video games business, with bylines over at Fanbyte, USA As we speak’s FTW, TheGamer, VG247, and RPG Website. Discover her on Twitter (@Maajora) or the Materia Possessions podcast chatting about FFXIV, RPGs, and any sequence involving large robots.