X's new original creator payouts arrive: $2,000+ in a week, 4x previous amounts

xiaohu · x · 2026-09-26

A creator reports the first payout from X's new original-creator reward program: over $2,000 in a single week, roughly 4x previous reward amounts (they initially misspoke as two weeks, correcting the period). The jump suggests X is significantly scaling up creator monetization.

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