Verification Is Dead. It’s All About Super Followers on Twitter, Now. - Gizmodo

Applications for both are currently open to any aspiring Twitter celebs that meet a short set of criteria: for entry into the Super Follows program, you need to be a US-based Twitterer who’s over 18, with at least 10,000 followers, and need to have tweeted at least 25 times over the past 30 days.

For the Ticketed Spaces program, you need to be over 18 with a verified email address, at least 1,000 followers to your name, and have a history that is free of, say, violating Twitter’s ads policies, or flouting the site’s standards for content monetization.

The Ticketed Spaces program, meanwhile, charges those users a one-time payment to attend an exclusive Spaces chat that creators can host.

Senior Twitter project manager Esther Crawford explained the rationale behind that $50,000 threshold: creators that earn that much from these services, are clearly getting value and from these services, and making “real earnings” off their followers.