Twitter is becoming more and more a real-time public publishing medium. In this respect, many companies start to have a presence in the twitter universe (twitterverse).
There are discussions on mechanism for Twitter to make money by charging for business use. I am not certain how it could easily done without getting user backslash. It will be hard to distinguish between private and commercial use.
I would recommend Twitter to charge users based on the same principle as the domain name business like godaddy.com and all there registrars. Domain name inside Twitter will become more and more valuable. Hence, these domain names could be traded later. To keep your domain name up and running inside Twitter, you will have to pay, let say $9.95 per year. This amount is quite cheap and most will certainly pay to keep their presence inside Twitter.
/@realwat
My profile on twitter.
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February 12, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Leah
I think this would not work because another free service “like” Twitter would just pop up to replace it. Too many potential competitors. People wouldn’t pay to have a Facebook profile any more than they would pay to have a Twitter account, I’m afraid.
@LeahRosin
February 12, 2009 at 7:34 pm
realwat
@LeahRosin I was having the same thought. However, there are not many competing platform which succeeded to supplant Twitter yet. If Twitter keep this momentum and users have all their micro-blog inside Twitter, it is quite a resistance to migrate to another platform. my 2 cents.
February 13, 2009 at 5:09 am
Victor
Then would it not be possible to charge for (Just to make up a number) more than 1000 followers? Twitter could easily charge it’s top 5% to keep accounts that have that much traffic.