Post, a Twitter alternative that pays publishers via microtransactions, launches in public beta and says outlets get an average $25 CPM for a paywalled article
Post, a Twitter alternative of sorts that's rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize … Mastodon: @atomicpoet@mastodon.social . Tweets: @jeffnolan and @baekdal See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Chris Trottier / @atomicpoet@mastodon.social : Post re-affirms that it will be adding ActivityPub integration, making it cross compatible with Mastodon. — However, they won't be happening this year. — And since Post is a start-up funded by Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), I'm skeptical about their intentions. … Tweets: Jeff Nolan / @jeffnolan : yeah, good luck with that. https://twitter.com/... Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : Translation, that is $0.025 per paywalled article ... which is completely useless for publishers. No publisher can run a business on that. In comparison, on Baekdal Plus, my revenue per paywalled view is around $4. So what Post is doing is not even close to useful. https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer