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Content creator Jimmy Donaldson (aka MrBeast) is among the most well-known social media figures thanks to his large following on YouTube, where he has over 200 million subscribers.
In the ever-evolving world of social media and sources of revenue for content creators, MrBeast recently conducted an experiment.
What Happened: MrBeast recently uploaded his first video to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The video was an old one from the content creator that featured vehicles of different price points in his well-known $1 vs. $100,000,000 series.
The video was originally uploaded to YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL).
"$1 Car vs $100,000,000 Car!!! I'm curious how much ad revenue a video on X would make so I'm reuploading this to test it. Will share ad rev next week," MrBeast tweeted.
On Monday, MrBeast reported the results of the video.
"My first X video made over $250,000! But it's a bit of a façade. Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think) and thus my revenue per view is prob higher than what you'd experience."
A screenshot shared by MrBeast reveals the tweet had 156,685,975 impressions and earned $263,665 in revenue.
It's important to note X and YouTube have different ways to track what a ...