Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Ronan Costello:

As I mentioned before, journalists get a lot of value from Twitter and we want to make sure that they see and feel that value and that we are investing in that. I will flag a couple of issues. I do not think we are involved in the conversation the Senator was having with Mr. Ó Broin but over the past couple of weeks, we have announced that we are going to offer journalists and news organisations the means by which they can generate revenue directly from their Twitter accounts. People can pay them directly for the work they are producing. Over the next couple of weeks and months, we will be introducing ways for journalists, news organisations and organisations of all kinds to introduce tiered subscriptions such that a user can have super followers who pay for exclusive access to content that is distributed through Twitter. In that sense, we are trying to find ways to encourage and reward the people who get the most value from, and contribute the most to, Twitter.

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