Twitter To Start Charging Companies For Access

February 10th, 2009 by Nick Gonzalez

While details have been few, tech blogs are reporting that Twitter may start charging for commercial access.

From TechCrunch:

Companies using Twitter 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.

This is what Stone reportedly said:

“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.”

I see Twitter attacking this problem on two fronts: authenticated accounts (solve the Domain squatting problem), and pay for followers (similar to how installs are sold on Facebook).

via Twitter To Start Charging Companies For Having An Account?.

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