While Twitter serves as a source of income for many people today, with the rise of OnlyFans, it has also turned into an advertising platform for the users of this platform. Users started posting obscene content to attract subscribers to their OnlyFans (and similar platforms) accounts.
On the other hand, according to The Verge’s report, Twitter has taken a radical decision in recent months, especially regarding obscene content. According to the documents obtained, the company formed a team for the ‘Monetization of Adult Creators’ project on April 21-22. This team would work on innovations that would make Twitter a direct competitor to OnlyFans.
Twitter has started seriously planning to monetize 18+ content:
This team, consisting of 84 people and called the ‘Red Team’, shared in the documents that if Twitter were to compete against OnlyFans, it would have extremely strong trump cards. However, the project has been described as being “consistent with Twitter’s principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.” In this project, the company finally began planning to acquire a money transfer license to be able to legally handle payments.
Of course, the project had its risks, some of which were child abuse and age-control issues:
“We could lose a significant amount of revenue from our top advertisers,” the team wrote about the risks of the project in the report. also made statements. However, the team stated that the current content control system CSE developed against child sexual abuse may also cause problems in distinguishing the content. It was also noted that even today, there are inconsistent sanctions for content that violates policies, and “We have poor security capabilities to keep products safe.” it said.
These two issues led to the shelving of the project (thankfully):
These two problems faced by Twitter caused the project to be shelved, according to the information provided. Because Twitter was currently unable to fully control child abuse and non-consensual nudity. For Twitter to evolve into a platform like OnlyFans, this content had to come from verified people and reach people of verified age.
The biggest tool to achieve this was the identity and age verification system. However, the Twitter team encountered that the Real ID system that could be used for this created serious problems. Matching IDs to government databases was expensive and required a secure network. The company had problems with some high-profile accounts while using Real ID, and eventually abandoned the project.
The team, which will make Twitter a rival to OnlyFans, transferred to find a solution to today’s most controversial issue:
After the cancellation of this problematic project, the Twitter team was responsible for identifying bot/spam accounts on the platform, according to the announcement made on August 23. Of course, the main reason for this orientation was Elon Musk’s accusations about Twitter:
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