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 Twitter still has Bitcoin Lightning tips via their integration with Strike, however I haven't received one single sat from Twitter since December 2022. Nostriches understand value for value.

https://void.cat/nostr/34c6ef085b67d3e9038980e4777572df14f3342d493121c6397cbc0bd8cd2d77.png 
 Do they even work tho? Are they just a broken vestigial tech artifact over there at this point. 
 It works. 
 Lame that the threshold is $1. They should keep it in sats and allow people to use any wallet, like on Nostr 
 I forgot they added that ages ago when I still had Twitter and a strike account. 😂 
 Twitter has lightning?? 
 Yes. @jack and @jack mallers implemented this a few years ago. 
 How do you switch it on? 
 You have to live in the USA I believe and then enable it via edit profile, tips enabled. 
 That's strange because Strike works in India 
 In India, one has the option to use Paytm (like Cash App), but that gives away your damn phone number 
 why does it still exist? 
 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
 grifters 
 It still works. It's not a grift. 
 if it is only for USA users then it is a gift. 
 grift  
 V4V with algorithms is a bad joke 👀 
 Maybe that's the issue. 
 I was so stoked about this when it first happened 
 Same. I was too. I was sad to see it not catch on. However, it kind of makes sense that it was a flop, because it was extremely limited to US users and Strike users. 
 That is around the time Elon took over 
 My point was not that Elon broke it, it works, my point was that people that care about value for value moved to Nostr. 
 Gotcha 
 First issue is not denominating is sats 
 I swear it used to do that somehow. 
 Might be if you manage to get to their strike.me page, where you can make an invoice yourself 
 Nah, I can remember seeing sats, like it was a toggle button or something. 
 Hmmm yeah maybe. I can’t recall 
 Same here.  
 I don't know Mr. IRS Agent. 
 I deleted almost as soon as I posted it because the note came across like a fed. 
Uncle Sam: https://i.nostr.build/VwV7d.png 
 Haha. You can hit custom and send as low as 5 cents btw. 
 Also why I deleted. I saw the custom and knew I was wrong so I redacted my statement. I never knew about this feature. Probably why it's not used.  
 I deleted almost as soon as I posted it because the note came across like a fed. 
Uncle Sam: https://i.nostr.build/VwV7d.png 
 Haha. You can hit custom and send as low as 5 cents btw. 
 Also why I deleted. I saw the custom and knew I was wrong so I redacted my statement. I never knew about this feature. Probably why it's not used.