X (Twitter) Monetization Eligibility Checker

Original Content Rewards is the only pay-per-impression program left. X closed Creator Revenue Sharing to new enrollments on August 7, 2026 and retired it on September 7, 2026. Members earned through September 7 and got a final payout on or around September 11. That old program paid on engagement from Premium users, at a creator-reported effective rate of roughly $8 to $12 per million total impressions; if you see that number quoted for the new program, it is the wrong figure on the wrong count. Original Content Rewards pays on qualified impressions instead: unique views from Premium subscribers on the Home Timeline where at least half the post is visible. It has paid. X issued the first payout under it on August 28, 2026, and creators migrating over from Revenue Sharing on or after September 8 get their first payment on September 25. What X still has not published is a rate, a share, or a formula, so treat any per-impression figure quoted for it as guesswork. What X does state: payouts run fortnightly with a $30 minimum, through X Money in the US and Stripe everywhere else; applications are reviewed, with no stated timeframe; meeting the bar does not guarantee admission; and a rejected application gets one appeal before a 42-day wait to reapply. You do not need to have been in the old program to apply.

What stops a post earning. Original means you made it, and commentary counts. Copied posts, lightly edited reposts, compilations of other people's work, and cross-platform reposts do not. Two exclusions catch people out: a post carrying a helpful Community Note earns nothing, and so does content that is exclusively about monetization itself. The program pays for the thing, not for talking about getting paid for the thing.

Subscriptions. Exclusive content for paying followers at a monthly price you pick from the points X offers; X does not publish those price points, so treat any specific dollar tier quoted elsewhere as unverified. You keep up to about 97% of gross, and the rest is payment processing and app store fees, not an X cut. Best for creators who can ship consistent premium content.

Ticketed Spaces and Tips. Ticketed Spaces are paid live audio at $1 to $999 per ticket, ideal for workshops, Q&As, and expert panels. Tips has zero requirements and X takes no cut; enable it in your profile settings today.

Where to find your stats. Verified followers are the ones paying for Premium, a subset of the count on your profile. Organic impressions are in X Analytics (analytics.x.com) under Posts, summed over the last 90 days; Subscriptions is the only program that still gates on that number. Qualified impressions are the awkward one. Creator Studio, Original Content Rewards shows an eligibility status, and X has never said whether it shows you the number behind it, so treat the figure you enter here as your own estimate rather than something you can look up. What it is not is your X Analytics total: that counts everyone, on every surface, replies included. Account age is the Joined date on your profile, and X wants at least three months across every program.

Beyond platform monetization. Many creators earn more from brand sponsorships than from platform programs. The X Sponsorship Rate Calculator prices sponsored posts, threads, and Spaces.