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Comment by Imnimo | Hacker News Reader

I'm having a very hard time imagining a scenario in which I would feel the need to tip someone for a Tweet.

I understand why I might want to pay someone for, say, a Youtube video, or a substack article. But is there really enough value packed into a tweet that I'd want to send someone money for it?

Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough. Or maybe the answer is porn.

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Here's an example.

Journalist spends a year on a story. Puts it on her blog. Shares the post via a tweet. You love the story, appreciate the hard work and give a tip.

"Any tips for this tweet will be sent back double!"

Might be good for journalism. People get paid for their analysis and being a trusted source. Hopefully revenue drops off when lying or sloppy work occurs.

Maybe local news channels can start compensating people who's media they want to broadcast and profit from.

There’s a lot of sex work on Twitter so porn isn’t a silly answer at all.

(1) to communicate to others that the particular tweet is valuable, by sending something with more scarcity than a mouseclick. (2) to help fund the creator of the tweet. (3) "is there really enough value packed into a tweet that I'd want to send someone money for it"? Well a tweet can be much more concise than a youtube video.

It doesn't just have to be for the content in the tweet. For example you could link to an article on your blog.

How about if I give you a direct solution to your problem? How about if I open source something and you want a feature adding? All sorts of uses. I still won't use it.

I could see someone tipping people like Foone who publish content primarily as stream of consciousness style Twitter threads.

Honestly I thought it was more for the chuck us a few quid tweets than rewarding anyone

Taking on GoFundMe's market rather than Patreon

If it made me laugh or found it insightful, I could see tipping $0.25 - $1 quite often.

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