The launch of Super Follows marked the start of the top for really free content material on Twitter, and the beginning of no matter Patreon-infused future lays forward for the microblogging app. Supporting creators straight with month-to-month funds isn’t a foul factor, however as app researcher Jane Manchun Wong spotted on Thursday, the best way they at present work on iOS is a bit bizarre — every Super Follow subscription is a person App Store in-app buy (via MacRumors).

You can see for your self by pulling up the App Store on an Apple device or the web. Twitter at present solely lists 10 in-app subscriptions of varied costs, every related to Super Following a person creator. Wong speculates solely 10 are proven as a result of the App Store isn’t designed to indicate as many in-app purchases as Twitter is at present providing.

There appears to be some reality to that, and a further downside: Apple solely permits for “10,000 in-app purchase products” per developer account. Even with Twitter’s eligibility requirements for Super Follows (amongst them, having 10,000 followers), it actually looks like that may show to be a difficulty as extra individuals use the options, particularly with the launch of different paid merchandise like Ticketed Spaces and Twitter Blue.

Other apps like Twitch have discovered methods across the in-app buy product limits by promoting subscription tokens that may be repeatedly bought and supplied to creators. The Verge has contacted Twitter to see if it plans to vary how Super Follows are at present applied. We will replace after we study extra.

Whether or not Twitter’s present association for Super Follows proves to be an issue relies upon totally on how in style the function finally ends up being. Twitter’s making an attempt a whole lot of new options, however they don’t all should essentially stick (or make sense) to matter. Some, like Fleets— which Twitter killed off after lower than a yr— will successfully self-yeet as a result of lack of recognition anyway.