30-08-2016 17:48 via recode.net

Twitter is finally paying its best users to create videos

Twitter wants the kind of video creators YouTube has — and the massive audiences that come with them.To make this dream a reality, the company is pulling a page from YouTube’s playbook: It’s going to sell ads alongside creator videos and share that ad revenue with the people making the content. And Twitter is offering very appealing terms.Unlike YouTube, which gives 55 percent of the money to creators and keeps 45 percent, Twitter is using the same revenue split it already offe
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