Twitter Affirms Paid Accounts Coming
According to a posting at Business Insider and the Wall Street Journal, paid “pro” accounts on Twitter are coming.
“In exchange for a fee, companies will get "more features" on Twitter, the WSJ reports
. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tells the WSJ that the company recently hired a product manager to help develop those accounts, but doesn’t specify what the extra features will be or when the accounts will launch.”
The story commentary just about writes itself on this one. How many millions of posts have I put together myself, let alone been thrown into the general wilds of the web, on monetizing Twitter.
One thing is clear, I wasn’t the choice for Twitter’s Product Manager, so my job here at SiliconANGLE is safe for a bit.
Will this assuage our concerns as to the long term viability of Twitter? It certainly is a better path to profitability, in our opinion, than partnering with Federated Media to highlight executive twitterers.
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