How to Get Paid on X: 6 Ways That Work in 2026

Who Pays You, and For What

X pays creators directly through two programs, Original Content Rewards and Creator Subscriptions, and both sit behind a Premium subscription, identity verification and an application that X can turn down. Tips, video programs, brand partnerships and your own products make up the rest of the picture, and the last three are where most creators without huge reach actually earn. The old Creator Revenue Sharing program closed to new members on 7 August 2026 and stopped paying on 7 September, so any guide still built around ads in replies is out of date. This one is checked against X Help as of 28 October 2026.

What Changed in 2026

For three years the headline way to get paid on X was Ads Revenue Sharing, which paid a cut of the ads shown in your replies based on engagement from Premium users. That program has been retired. X stopped accepting new enrolments on 7 August 2026, paid existing members through 7 September, and from 8 September began moving them to the Original Content Rewards Program, which pays for impressions on original posts rather than for engagement with ads.

Two older features that still appear in many guides are gone as well. Ticketed Spaces no longer exist as a paid product, and Revue, the newsletter tool X once owned, shut down in 2023. Super Follows is simply called Subscriptions now. If a guide mentions any of those as a current income source, treat the rest of it with caution.

Original Content Rewards

This is the program that replaced revenue sharing and the one most people mean when they ask how to get paid on X. You earn for qualified impressions: unique views of your original posts by Premium subscribers, on the Home Timeline, with at least half the post visible on screen. Views from your profile page, from search, from the same person twice, or from promoted or faked traffic do not count, and impressions on your replies are excluded from the eligibility total.

To apply you need to be 18 or older in a country where the program is available, hold a Premium, Premium+ or Premium Business subscription, have at least 500 verified followers and at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in the last 90 days, and post content you made yourself. Meeting those numbers gets you an application, not a place: X reviews it, you can appeal once if it is refused, and after that you wait before applying again. Status lives under Creator Studio, then Original Content Rewards.

Original content is defined more generously than the name suggests. Commentary counts, so breaking down a news story or adding context to someone else’s post qualifies as long as your contribution is the point. What does not earn is a reupload, a video with a filter or a text overlay added, a compilation of other people’s clips, or content pulled over from another platform by someone who did not make it. Posts built mainly around monetization coaching are excluded too, as is anything carrying a helpful Community Note, and asking people to like, repost or bookmark your posts is grounds for removal from the program.

Payouts arrive every two weeks once you pass a $30 minimum, through X Money in the United States and a Stripe payout account everywhere else. Our guide to how much X actually pays covers realistic earnings ranges, and this article stays on the mechanics.

Abonnementen voor ontwerpers

Subscriptions let people pay you a monthly fee for bonus posts, subscriber-only replies, a badge next to their name and whatever extras you promise. You choose the monthly price from the points X offers, and you keep up to 97% of what X receives after app-store fees until you pass $50,000 in lifetime earnings, after which the share drops.

The bar is higher than for Rewards. The current Subscriptions policy asks for an account at least three months old, a complete profile with a bio, photo and header, a verified email, two-factor authentication, a post in the last 30 days, at least 2,000 active followers who themselves pay for Premium or Verified Organizations, and 5 million organic impressions in the last three months, plus identity verification. The sample X publishes is worth remembering: on a $5 subscription bought through the iPhone app, Apple’s fee takes $1.50 and X’s minimum share $0.10, leaving up to $3.40 for you. Web purchases avoid the app-store cut. Payouts are monthly with a $50 minimum that rolls over until you reach it, and the money can take several weeks to reach your bank.

Tips

Tips is the lightest option and the only one with no reach requirement. Switch it on in Edit Profile, accept the tipping policy and add at least one handle from the payment services X lists for your country. A small money icon then appears on your profile, and anyone who taps it is sent to that service to pay you directly. X takes nothing; the payment service may charge its own fee, and the username you add becomes publicly linked to your account. You need to be 18 to send or receive tips, and a tip does not entitle the sender to any subscriber content.

Video Programs

Video money on X comes in three forms, and none of them is open to everyone. Amplify Pre-roll places ads before your videos and Amplify Sponsorships pairs you with advertisers; both run through Media Studio, require approval, pay 60 days after the end of the month and hold earnings until you reach $100. The Video Kickstart Bonus is invitation only: selected creators who post 15 qualifying vertical videos under three minutes on 15 different days in a period receive a bonus with their Rewards payout. Videos must be yours, without another platform’s watermark, and not sponsored. If video is your lane, our breakdown of X video length limits explains what each Premium tier lets you upload.

Merkpartnerschappen

Sponsored posts and ambassador deals are negotiated off the platform, which is exactly why they scale past the thresholds above: a brand cares about whether your audience is the one it wants, not whether you have 500,000 verified impressions. X does set one rule. Posts you are paid to publish must carry the paid partnership label, and the same label is required by X’s own template-rewards pilot, so the habit is worth building early. Keep a simple one-page rate sheet, invoice outside X and treat your post analytics as the evidence a brand will ask for.

Your Own Products and Services

The sixth way is the oldest: use X to send people to something you sell. Consulting, templates, courses, a paid community, physical goods, all of it works from a profile that explains what you do and a pinned post that points to it. There are no X requirements, no approval and no fee, and it is the only route that does not depend on Premium at all. Our guide to making money on Twitter goes further into affiliate links and digital products, so this article keeps to the platform programs.

Uitbetalingen instellen

Whatever program you qualify for, the setup runs the same way. Subscribe to Premium, Premium+ or Premium Business; Basic is enough for a checkmark but not for creator payouts. Open Creator Studio, which lives under your profile icon and Monetization on the phone and under More and Monetization on the web, and check which programs list you as eligible. Apply, then complete creator identity verification through the form X links from your monetization settings; creators who verified for the old revenue-sharing program do not need to repeat it.

Connect a payout account next. Creators in the United States use an X Money account, which is tied to one person and one X account only. Everyone else connects a Stripe payout account with their bank details and completes Stripe’s identity check. After a payout is processed, funds usually appear within three to five business days, and X says it can take up to ten before you need to raise a support request from the Monetization menu. US creators who earn more than $600 in a year receive a Form 1099.

Where Smaller Accounts Should Start

The two X-paid programs are out of reach for most accounts under a few thousand followers, and chasing the 500,000 verified-impression bar by posting more often usually backfires. Impressions on replies do not count toward Rewards, and bait engagement can get an approved account removed. The realistic order is Tips first, because it costs nothing, then a product or service of your own, then brand work once your analytics show a consistent audience, and only then an application to Rewards or Subscriptions. Posting when your followers are online matters more than volume for the impression count; our guide to the best time to post on X is the companion piece for that.

Growth services sit outside all of this. BuzzVoice sells X volgers and engagement for profiles that want visible momentum, but purchased followers do not become verified followers and do not count as qualified impressions, and X’s monetization rules bar artificial engagement on an earning account. Treat them as a profile-presence decision, not a route into the payout programs.

FAQ

Is Creator Revenue Sharing still available on X?
No. New enrolments closed on 7 August 2026 and the final payout covered earnings through 7 September. Existing members were offered a path into the Original Content Rewards Program, which pays for qualified impressions on original posts rather than for ad engagement in replies.

How many followers do you need to get paid on X?
Original Content Rewards asks for 500 verified followers plus 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in 90 days. Subscriptions asks for 2,000 active followers who pay for Premium and 5 million organic impressions in three months. Tips, brand deals and selling your own products have no follower requirement.

Do you need X Premium to get paid?
For the programs X pays itself, yes: Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions both require Premium, Premium+ or Premium Business, and Basic does not qualify. Tips, brand partnerships and your own products work from a free account.

How does X pay creators?
Through X Money for creators in the United States and through a connected Stripe payout account elsewhere, in both cases after identity verification. Rewards pay every two weeks from a $30 minimum, Subscriptions pay monthly from $50, and Amplify video earnings are paid 60 days after month end once you pass $100.