X Cuts Final Revenue Sharing Payout Today. OCR Needs 500K Verified Impressions.

Help Center pages for both programs lay out the calendar. New Revenue Sharing enrollments stopped on 7 August. Existing members kept accruing through 7 September, with three final payouts on the biweekly schedule: 14 August, 28 August, and a last transfer for that accrual window expected on or around 11 September. On 8 September, X Creators said applications for Original Content Rewards were open in Creator Studio, Revenue Sharing had “officially sunset,” and approved former Revenue Sharing members should see a first OCR payout on 25 September.

The replacement program pays on qualified impressions, not a vague ad-share vibe check. X defines those as unique Home Timeline impressions from Premium users (Basic, Premium, Premium+, or Premium Business) where at least 50% of the post is visible. Repeat views from the same account on the same post, paid or promoted impressions, artificial generation, and fraud are out. Payouts stay biweekly with a $30 minimum. U.S. creators are pointed at X Money; non-U.S. creators still connect Stripe and finish identity verification — the same rail split Posthype flagged when X moved U.S. payouts onto X Money earlier this month.

Eligibility is a stack, not a single score. Applicants need to be 18+, in a supported country, on a Personal or Business account in good standing (political and government org accounts are out), hold active Premium / Premium+ / Premium Business, post original content as the program defines it, hold at least 500 verified followers, and show at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in the last 90 days, with reply impressions excluded. Meeting the numbers does not guarantee admission. Rejected applicants get one appeal; after an unsuccessful appeal, Help Center says they can reapply after 42 days if they still clear the bar. Accounts with monetization paused for a prior policy violation cannot enroll now.

That 500,000 figure is a tenth of the old Revenue Sharing threshold of 5 million organic impressions in three months — but the originality screen is the real filter. X will not pay for wholesale copies, reuploads of someone else's clips, minimal edits (filters, speed changes, basic overlays), or aggregation without meaningful new analysis. Commentary and analysis can count when the creator adds substantive value. TechCrunch's Anthony Ha, reporting the 8 August announcement, quoted product manager Allegra Jacchia: Revenue Sharing's incentives had become “misaligned,” and X chose to “start fresh” rather than keep bolting on exceptions.

Migration is not automatic. Former Revenue Sharing members still have to clear the new gates and apply. Identity verification and an existing valid payout method carry over; enrollment does not.

For creators who lived on reply bait and repost volume, today is the last legacy check. The next money, if any, is OCR money — Premium eyes on original posts in the Home Timeline, biweekly, $30 floor.