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- X replaces Revenue Sharing with Original Content Rewards X retired Creator Revenue Sharing on Sep 7, 2026 and replaced it with Original Content Rewards. Key dates, the new 500K-impression rule and what to do now.
- US creator payouts move to X Money Since Sep 2, 2026, US creators get Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions payouts in X Money, not Stripe. What changes, what doesn't, and non-US creators.
- X cuts payouts to aggregator accounts In April 2026 X cut payouts to aggregator and clickbait accounts, then made originality a hard rule. What counts as original, what doesn't, and how to adapt.
- How the X algorithm works X published the code behind its For You feed. How posts are found, scored and filtered, which signals count, and what that means for creators trying to grow.
- The $1M Article prize: rules and winners X offered $1M for the best Article of January 2026 and said its creator pool had doubled. The rules, the winners, and how it led to Original Content Rewards.
Timeline: how X has paid creators
Every change to X's creator payouts we've tracked, from the first Revenue Sharing payouts in 2023 to Original Content Rewards.
First Original Content Rewards payout for switchers
Creators who moved over from Revenue Sharing and were approved from September 8 onward get their first Original Content Rewards payout, according to X.
Final Creator Revenue Sharing payout
The last Revenue Sharing payout covers earnings through September 7. X said it would arrive "on or around" September 11.
Existing members can apply to Original Content Rewards
X begins rolling out access for Revenue Sharing members. The eligibility status is in Creator Studio → Original Content Rewards. ID verification and payout accounts carry over.
Creator Revenue Sharing is retired
The program that paid X creators since 2023 ends. Earnings stop accruing under the old rules on this date.
US payouts move to X Money
US creators are paid through X Money instead of Stripe for Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions. Creators outside the US stay on Stripe.
Revenue Sharing closes; Original Content Rewards announced
X stops accepting new Revenue Sharing members and announces Original Content Rewards, which pays only for original content and lowers the impressions bar to 500,000 verified impressions in 90 days.
Aggregator payouts cut
Head of product Nikita Bier says aggregator and clickbait accounts had their payouts reduced to 60% for the cycle, with a further 20% cut planned for the next one.
Creator Subscriptions revamp
X adds subscriber-only threads, a shareable subscription card, a new earnings dashboard and a "Paid partnership" label.
AI war footage must be labeled
Posting AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without an AI disclosure now means a 90-day suspension from creator payouts; repeat violations are permanent.
$1M Article prize winners announced
X names the winners of its one-off long-form Article contest: $1M first prize, $500K second, $250K third and four $100K honorable mentions.
X open-sources its Grok-based feed algorithm
X publishes the code of its new recommendation system on GitHub (xai-org/x-algorithm) under the Apache 2.0 license.
$1M prize for the top Article
A one-cycle contest for US Premium subscribers: the best original Article of 1,000+ words wins $1 million.
Payouts tied to Premium engagement
Revenue Sharing stops paying on ads shown in replies and starts paying on engagement from Premium subscribers.
Creator Revenue Sharing launches
X (then Twitter) sends its first creator payouts, based on ads shown in the replies to creators' posts.