Twitter testing tipping but tying tips to individual accounts rather than individual tweets is, it me, a miss. Show people a tweet that has received love...make a whole other like button, and let people (if they want) display the tweets they've tipped.
This is effectively "venmo in bio" but simplified. That's not a new feature, it's streamlining an existing system and making it more culturally OK.

Twitter needs monetization innovation, not little tweaks!!
It's inexcusable that Ze Frank launched duckies in 2006 and Reddit has had Gold since 2010 and every other platform was like, "Nah, let's lean into datamining our users so people can sell them sandals."
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