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Twitter To Start Charging Companies For Having An Account?
TechCrunch —
... for commercial purposes may soon start getting charged for that activity, according to an interview British trade magazine Marketing (part of BrandRepublic) held with co-founder Biz Stone. ...
Twitter Cofounder Announces Possible Business Model
WebProNews Feed —
... Fees for commercial accounts Twitter, which is now two years and eleven months old, has outlived a lot of startups. It's attracted a huge user base, and arguably achieved a level of mainstream acceptance. But Twitter still lacks a business model, and so it was rather groundbreaking for cofounder Biz Stone to suggest one earlier today. Stone told Fiona Ramsay , "We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them." He then continued, "We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts." Since ...
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... may begin charging for commercial accounts . Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing magazine that the company is "noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts," but, in typical ...
Twitter starts to talk up the charging companies plan
VentureBeat —
... Then today, Stone made similar comments to the UK-based Marketing Magazine. “We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts,” Stone told the publication. He went on to note that other ideas of charging companies to use Twitter to market products and/or provide customer service were on the table. ...
Twitter to Begin Charging for Commercial Use
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... their customers directly and personally. Although some brands have soured at the notion of paying for Twitter, the creators need to tap some kind of revenue stream; there aren’t even ads right now. Of course, we are left to wonder what kind of corporate features Twitter is willing to lure paying customers in with. Whatever they are, hopefully the features won’t empower corporations to push their products too agressively on the general twittering population.
[via Marketing]
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Twitter is planning to charge brands for using the micro-blogging website - Marketing
Co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: ‘We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts.’ He would not be drawn on the level of charges. Stone said it could also create revenue-generating features to tap into the way brands use Twitter as a hybrid marketing and customer-service tool. But Bob Pearson, vice-president of ...
The end of free Twitter is coming
Obsessable News Feed —
... is starting to discuss the possibility of charging for accounts that are used for commercial purposes. In an interview with Marketing Magazine, co-founder of Twitter ...
Microsoft on Twitter
Geek In Disguise —
... Probably just as well we don’t know who precisely from Microsoft is on Twitter though as apparently Twitter is considering charging commercial entities for Twitter use :) ...
Twitter May Begin Charging for Commercial Accounts
Technologizer —
... Twitter may yet prove that it is more than the gilded plaything of venture capitalists , and a productivity killer for those of us who tweet while we should be working. In an interview with UK-based Marketing newspaper, co-founder Biz Stone said that the company was identifying ways to charge for commercial accounts. ...
Twitter Founder Tells Press To Hold Its Horses
WebProNews Feed —
... published in the UK s Marketing Magazine and in New York Magazine. The title above the collage reads, Nothing To Report Just Yet. What got the press all stirred up were statements the founders made about monetizing Twitter via commercial accounts. This was very exciting given all the jazz about the microblogging network some estimate to be valued at $250-500 million despite vows to avoid advertising and lack of revenue alternatives. The money quotes are as follows: From Stone in Marketing Magazine : We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following ...
Tweeting on Twitter
p2pnet news —
... It’s a given that as soon as anything becomes popular online, advertising will rear its head, Twitter being no exception, and now, according to co-founder Biz Stone, talking to Marketing, “We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them.” ...
Twitter Japan Will Allow Users to Charge for Access to Their Tweets
ReadWriteWeb —
... In the rest of the world, however, Twitter is more likely to make money through charging for premium accounts that add new features (analytics, verified accounts, etc.). ...
