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Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Hunter Jackson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:01:55 -0000

Twitter is new to me. I have been on a while, and have around 100 followers, following twice that many. i enjoy it. Is it a sevice I would pay for? Perhaps a small amount, but not much.

One thing I can see twitter starting to charge for would be a 'premium' account that would take off the 'dofollow' tags. therefore your more or less buying backlinks. whether that is what you want or not, that is up to you.

i do agree with doing the follow for a twitter id, or charging some people (ie woot.com) a subscription fee for advertising their deals to everyone. it would have to be a mass broadcast to work in my opinion.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Hunter Jackson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:01:55 -0000

Twitter is new to me. I have been on a while, and have around 100 followers, following twice that many. i enjoy it. Is it a sevice I would pay for? Perhaps a small amount, but not much.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Raleigh, NC — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:57 -0000

I follow people for leads on local news as well as people who have good industry knowledge (like you Andy). Much of the A-listers post such crap that its hard to follow them.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Raleigh, NC — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:59:57 -0000

I follow people for leads on local news as well as people who have good industry knowledge (like you Andy). Much of the A-listers post such crap that its hard to follow them.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

igorthetroll — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:04:31 -0000

I only Follow people that have something interesting to say about what I am involved in!

I cannot imagine how @Scobleizer follows 21k! Does he read what they have o say? Or he just talks to everyone from the top down and wants them to do as he says? He himself admitted in a Tweet that people want to be told what to do. I disagree with that people want to participate in the process of building creative ideas!

We are a community of Internet users with common goals. So, we all have a voice that is counted towards consensus.

Maybe @Scobleizer is Mussolini and he is a Totalitarian Dictator! When Sobleizer speaks, everybody listens or they get Blocked and even Banned on Twitter! LOL

There is nothing wrong with a large following as long as you let your followers contribute as well.

Like Andy, Maki, Darren they all let their followers say things and even be controversial at times.

I think what makes a strong leader is a strong base of followers not Yes Sir, Thank You Sir!

Ha,ha! A bit off topic.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

igorthetroll — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:04:31 -0000

I only Follow people that have something interesting to say about what I am involved in!

We are a community of Internet users with common goals. So, we all have a voice that is counted towards consensus.

Maybe @Scobleizer is Mussolini and he is a Totalitarian Dictator! When Sobleizer speaks, everybody listens or they get Blocked and even Banned on Twitter! LOL

There is nothing wrong with a large following as long as you let your followers contribute as well.

Like Andy, Maki, Darren they all let their followers say things and even be controversial at times.

I think what makes a strong leader is a strong base of followers not Yes Sir, Thank You Sir!

Ha,ha! A bit off topic.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Mike at Pacebutler Recycling — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:17:58 -0000

I agree with you, Andy. It's just counter-intuitive to penalize the very people who form the base of Twitter's popularity. I think Igor's ideas are superb as far as creating a revenue model for Twitter. Ads, collaboration with the telecoms, working with the social networks, and using Twitter as a platform to launch businesses. As a user, like you I wouldn't mind receiving a marketing email from Twitter, nor like Igor, having to follow a TWITTER account and get their updates. I'd probably drastically reduce the people I follow to a bare few, if I'd be made to pay for each one. And I imagine everyone would too, destroying Twitter's phenomenal reach.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Mike at Pacebutler Recycling — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:17:58 -0000

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

igorthetroll — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:43:07 -0000

Sorry, I totally forgot! Twitter can share in revenue stream with mobile network providers. I would not be surprised if they already doing this.

When you use SMS to send a Twitt to Twitter you have to pay for that. If you use a mobile browser platform to post a message you are using up your data packets.

With so many people using Twitter on their mobile phone it is in the best interest of Twitter to have more and more users.

I did some consulting for a Mobile Telecoms company in Asia, so that was their business model with application providers.

Download a ringtone for free but using up your data allowance. The ringtone provider shared in the stream of revenue.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

igorthetroll — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:43:07 -0000

Sorry, I totally forgot! Twitter can share in revenue stream with mobile network providers. I would not be surprised if they already doing this.

When you use SMS to send a Twitt to Twitter you have to pay for that. If you use a mobile browser platform to post a message you are using up your data packets.

With so many people using Twitter on their mobile phone it is in the best interest of Twitter to have more and more users.

I did some consulting for a Mobile Telecoms company in Asia, so that was their business model with application providers.

Download a ringtone for free but using up your data allowance. The ringtone provider shared in the stream of revenue.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Svetlana Gladkova - Profy — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:09:59 -0000

Pretty comprehensive list of arguments here, Andy. And I do not think I would want Twitter to implement any monetization strategy based on heavy users and the number of people they follow. The only trend I notice myself is that the majority of heavy users also rely on some desktop client to use Twitter more efficiently (of course, it is a nightmare to try using Twitter without it when you follow hundreds of people and actually want to engage in discussions with them) and a better idea would be to charge users for access to Twitter via API through some third-party application. Otherwise I would not want them to charge me based on the people I want to listen to. But I would not mind them charging me for extra comfort.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Svetlana Gladkova - Profy — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:09:59 -0000

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Nick Sutton — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:24:11 -0000

Completely agree with you Igor. Twitter might not be making any money or satisfy people as Andy suggest, but there is so much more to Twitter if you dig just a little deeper. What a great platform for instant communication, discussions and interactively. Everything web 2.0 is about!

Thanks for sharing.

Nick :-)

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

Nick Sutton — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:24:11 -0000

Thanks for sharing.

Nick :-)

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

igorthetroll — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:13:34 -0000

Come on guys, you are not getting the Twitter business model. Anyone buying Twitter Inc. gets to have all these users.

So who ever gets it will build other applications around it! Everybody is hooked on Twitter, because of the Power users using the service!

Hey Twitter can turn around and Ask Face Book, Friend Feed and other social networks that use its API connectivity for usage fee!

It is like you guys could not imagine how Google would make money when it first started, well Adsense! Now Google buying up properties just to retain its users!

Can someone tell me how Youtube is making money? Gmail, GDocs, etc.

There are complementary services to Google search engine which makes revenue from Adsense.

Please think out of the Box.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

igorthetroll — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:13:34 -0000

Come on guys, you are not getting the Twitter business model. Anyone buying Twitter Inc. gets to have all these users.

So who ever gets it will build other applications around it! Everybody is hooked on Twitter, because of the Power users using the service!

Hey Twitter can turn around and Ask Face Book, Friend Feed and other social networks that use its API connectivity for usage fee!

It is like you guys could not imagine how Google would make money when it first started, well Adsense! Now Google buying up properties just to retain its users!

Can someone tell me how Youtube is making money? Gmail, GDocs, etc.

There are complementary services to Google search engine which makes revenue from Adsense.

Please think out of the Box.

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

McLaughlin — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:47:38 -0000

pay for push makes sense, but there are a lot of people on twitter that sign up hoping you will follow back - I have seen people that follow 30 thousand others. I can't see paying for people like that, even less value than stumbleupon traffic!

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

McLaughlin — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:47:38 -0000

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

samirb — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:01:00 -0000

I wouldn't mind if I was required to follow "Twitter" for example and received a tweet from them daily with a "recommended" item to buy

Re: You Can't Charge For Twitter Popularity

samirb — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:01:00 -0000

I wouldn't mind if I was required to follow "Twitter" for example and received a tweet from them daily with a "recommended" item to buy