Twitter may be working on a new subscription-based platform

It seems Twitter is gearing up to launch a new subscription-based platform, a job posting on the company’s career’s website revealed. The platform is currently codenamed Gryphon and it’s unclear when it will launch or what exactly it will be. We have written to Twitter for clarification and will be updating this story if the same is obtained.

The job posting says that this will be a “first for Twitter” and the company is hiring a team of web engineers who will be working closely with both the Payments team, and the Twitter.com team. Other than paying for ads and promoting tweets, Twitter so far hasn’t done payments-based services.

Anything more about the platform is speculation at this point, but speculations are that Twitter might allow influencers and creators to get paid for their tweets. It’s possible that the company will build a feature that asks users to pay for access to certain Twitter accounts, or perhaps certain services.