One of the two IT engineers, Billy Markus, was responsible for the 2013 launch of the meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Markus is currently more active on Twitter than Jackson Palmer, who was formerly close with its founder Elon Musk.
Markus just tweeted that he enjoys Twitter’s function that lets him be paid and that he anticipates using it more frequently.
DOGE cofounder likes to get paid for making content on Twitter
Elon Musk recently launched a subscription function on Twitter that enables content producers to continuously get incentives from their followers.
There is no set monthly membership charge; for instance, a subscription to Billy Markus costs 3.33 euros, while an Elon Musk subscription costs 4.40 euros, or the same in USD for Americans. Markus’ Twitter handle, Shibetoshi Nakamoto, claims 2.1 million followers. Given that Elon Musk is one of the richest persons in the world and a tech developer, and that he has 148.4 million, the subscription cost he set seems to be quite significant.
Basically, 1,000 subscribers would enable a creative to focus only on their work and quit their day job.
Elon Musk introduced lengthier texts and a tool that enables content creators to submit videos on Twitter after launching the subscription option.
Billy Markus is second biggest earner on Twitter
Elon Musk recently announced the findings of the money distribution for content creators on Twitter, as previously reported by U.Today. The aforementioned Billy Markus rose to the position of second-highest paid employee there, based on the statistics.
$37,500 was earned by Shibetoshi Nakamoto. Elon Musk has given inventors $5 million in incentives in all. The first batch of payments ever made on Twitter was that one.
Markus was outdone by the Internet Hall of Fame Twitter user, who earned $107,247 and had about 1.9 million followers. All revenue for 2022 will be distributed to authors, with Twitter keeping nothing, as Musk stated earlier this year. The social media site will start withholding a tiny portion of those funds for its own expenditures as of the next year.
DOGE creator takes jab at Mark Zuckerberg
A little over a week ago, Billy Markus criticised Facebook founder and Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg in an article published by U.Today for once again stealing an idea from other digital innovators.
This time, he used Instagram, which Meta had previously purchased, to build Threads App, a Twitter clone.
He stated, perhaps poetically, that Elon Musk “created oxygen so we could breath,” whereas “Zuckerberg invented carbon monoxide to kill us all.”
Elon Musk-vs-Zuckerberg cage fight
Earlier, as was noted on Crypto Twitter, Zuckerberg added Instagram’s version of Snapchat’s Stories feature, stole TikTok’s Reels for the same app, and is now stealing Twitter’s Threads.
Colosseum is one of the potential settings for the cage match that Elon Musk and Zuckerberg want to conduct soon. Immediately following the publication of Threads, Musk issued that challenge to Zuckerberg. Before the anticipated battle, which, if it occurs, promises to be one of the most intriguing and entertaining events in history, both tech millionaires are practising with martial arts professionals.
