Twitter's next revenue stream: Auctioning your usernames.
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Twitter’s next revenue stream: Auctioning your usernames
Twitter is considering monetizing users’ names on the platform to generate new revenue streams. Currently, Twitter rules against “username squatting,” which restricts people from creating accounts without any actual profile to sell their username. CEO Elon Musk has talked about “freeing” the usernames of 1.5 billion accounts that have been deleted and haven’t beed used for years.
Vocabulary
| 单词 | 音标 | 翻译 |
|---|---|---|
| monetize | ‘mʌnɪtaɪz/ | v. 把…定为法定货币 |
| revenue | ˈrevənjuː | n. 财政收入 |
| revenue stream | 收入来源 | |
| squat | skwɒt | v. 擅自占用 |
| free | friː | v. 释放 |
推特的下一个收入来源：拍卖你的用户名。
Twitter正在考虑将用户在该平台上的名字货币化，以产生新的收入来源。目前，Twitter规定禁止 “抢占用户名”，这限制了人们在没有任何实际资料的情况下创建账户来出售他们的用户名。首席执行官埃隆-马斯克曾谈到 “释放 “15亿个已被删除且多年未使用的账户的用户名。