Comments on: Will Twitter Start Charging?

By: kohashi

kohashi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:06:45 +0000

Twitter has sponsored ads already, so the part about not making a dime isn’t really quite correct.

By: busy

busy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:47:23 +0000

For all the naysayers, I can think of three examples of people making money because they use Twitter.

One is Dell, which was mentioned in the article, one is a company local to my area sells out of certain products very quickly by tweeting when shipments are in, and one is me. A designer I work with gets the majority of his new projects from connections he has made on Twitter and that means work (and money) for me.

If you’re not able to use Twitter for anything useful, that’s on you. It’s a great service and has tons of value for those of us who use it well.

By: p2409

p2409 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:09:20 +0000

Twitter’s on the way out. It’s not new media (anyone get anything of any worth in the recent Iran election hoohah? No – self-obsessed, predominantly American people drowned out anything relevant happening on the ground). It’s also become pornicated (”Josie Adams has added you blah blah”). Cute timewaster while it lasted.

By: webhost.uk.net

webhost.uk.net — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:34:10 +0000

I hope they dont do so , so early

By: SpanishNick

SpanishNick — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:10:26 +0000

What about there text updates couldnt they charge for that, I dont know if they charge now but that seems the obviously place to start but a a very low level. They will have to do some form of advertising. With there customer base they should be making money, maybe google will buy them an put addwords on the site

By: hairybob

hairybob — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:55:59 +0000

What will they do when people wake up and realize that knowing when someone is brushing their teeth isn’t something that creates any value (for anyone).

Twitter is just another time waster that, like many other social phenomena of the past ten years, will slowly lose its way. Without any viable revenue stream, this might come sooner rather than later!!!!

By: ljastangs21

ljastangs21 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:45:39 +0000

they should charge a 5% fee for every tweet…no only sp would do that

By: NetNerd85

NetNerd85 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:41:25 +0000

When I think of Twitter I think of the movie Idiocracy, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Watch it, you’ll start hating society just that little bit more…

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:16:16 +0000

I don’t really see how they could charge for a basic account, if they begin to charge for a basic account somebody will just create a twitter clone and steal their users.

By: lendager

lendager — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:20:19 +0000

wow！ my twitter account value $45