After including tipping together with its Tremendous Comply with and different subscription choices, Twitter now seems to be engaged on a new ‘Awards’ possibility for tweets, which might probably present one other means for creators to generate revenue from their on-platform efforts.

As you may see on this picture, shared by reverse engineering professional Jane Manchun Wong, the brand new award possibility seems as a present icon within the decrease tweet operate bar. There’s additionally a microphone icon earlier than Wong’s consumer title on this instance, which seems to be linked with Tremendous Follows, although what it truly means is just not clear as but.

Awards appears much like Fb’s digital items, that are purchasable with Stars, its in-app foreign money to donate to creators, whereas YouTube additionally has its personal ‘Tremendous Stickers’ choice to facilitate the identical. TikTok additionally has stay items, whereas Reddit additionally has varied gifting choices.

Awards on Twitter would seemingly serve the identical objective as these instruments, in offering one other, extra partaking solution to donate to creators, which might assist to get the eye of your favourite customers, or simply assist them for his or her efforts. However relatively than donating, you’d be capable to allocate an award or reward primarily based on every particular person tweet – which could possibly be nice if a tweet of yours goes viral, offering a way to immediate extra particular response.

We requested Twitter concerning the take a look at, and it offered this assertion:

“We’re at all times trying into new methods for individuals to have interaction with others on Twitter and don’t have additional info to share at the moment.”

So not a lot to go on, however primarily based on Wong’s historical past of discoveries that then make their means into the stay atmosphere, it could possibly be coming a while quickly.