Twitter to pay verified creators for ads in replies, Musk says

FILE PHOTO Elon Musks photo is seen through a Twitter logo in this illustration taken October 28 2022. REUTERSDado RuvicIllustration

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk's photo is seen through a Twitter logo in this illustration taken October 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/

(Reuters) -Twitter will soon begin paying verified content creators for ads in their replies, with the first payment block of around $5 million, company owner Elon Musk said on Friday.

"Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count," Musk, the billionaire who bought Twitter last October, said in a tweet.

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