Twitter is introducing its tipping function on Android gadgets that may enable customers to ship cash to the content material creators of their alternative. This isn’t a brand new function and the corporate launched its Tip Jar performance for iOS gadgets earlier this 12 months.
The function permits customers together with creators and journalists to monetize their tweets within the type of ideas. Creators shall be share hyperlinks to their Bandcamp, Money App, Patreon, Paypal, and Venmo accounts and in flip, will be capable of obtain ideas from their followers.
Twitter confirmed that the tipping function shall be coming to Android by way of a tweet. Customers will be capable of add the Suggestions icon to their profile from the Edit Profile button. As of now, solely a restricted group of creators, journalists, and nonprofits have been receiving the function.
Twitter had launched the Tip Jar function in Might earlier this 12 months and in September, it launched it for all iOS customers over the age of 18. The corporate is now stated to be engaged on the flexibility to permit customers to obtain ideas in Bitcoin by way of the tip jar function.
In different information, Twitter not too long ago confirmed that it will now supply full-sized photographs on its platform. The replace will do away with the auto-cropping algorithm on its Android and iOS apps, which can enable customers to view photographs of their entirety, on their timeline.
This implies whereas posting photographs on the platform, customers will be capable of see an correct preview of the identical, with none formatting. The corporate describes the full-size preview window by stating “what you see is what you get”.
Twitter confirmed the arrival of options in a sequence of Tweets, whereas additionally describing the identical. “A brand new type of shock: exhibit extra of your pic if you Tweet a single picture. Now accessible to everybody on Android and iOS –– how your picture appears to be like within the Tweet composer is the way it will look on the timeline” Twitter acknowledged as a part of a tweet.
