How can we capitalise on Twitter’s addictiveness? at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Tom brings up an interesting point, I can see a way that Twitter itself can capitalise and make money on all of us addicted folks but can we make money with Twitter itself?

Let's take for example a small company, just a few guys out there working together in a startup environment or heck what about a large enterprise company and it's a department of guys?

Well each of these folks is constantly on the road or away from the "office", so how best to communicate without distracting each other from the work at hand? Twitter fits perfectly BUT in Twitter you only have two options "private or "public" what if Twitter was to offer a third level? Groups.

Groups, would allow me to create a virtual team of Twitter members that would give them the security of "direct messages" and "private updates" without making them creating a second account just for that purpose. I could Twitter to the public, to my friend or to my group or multiple groups and considering the massive adoption Twitter has going right now they could be like TimeToMeet and offer up the "pro" package for allowing groups for mere pennies, TimeToMeet I think it's what $5 for 6 months of subscription?  It would be value added on top and still my choice to use or not.

But this is just Twitter making money off of us, how can we make money with Twitter directly? Scoble could probably make a decent effort, he's got several hundred friends and followers right now so the basic "ad" or "pay per post" jumps into my head right off the bat. Scoble decides that he'll "host" ads in his feed (of course paying for the "Pro" subscription so Twitter is getting their kickback) and has the ability to select various and how often they are filtered into his posts say every 100 twitters he pops an add in simple little text deal nothing much (140 characters of course) but that's the same old (but tried and true) "ad" model.

Is there another way? I mean how would you feel if you kept getting an "ad" popping up into your "friends feed" every once and awhile and then when all of your friends started to doing it you get nothing but ads? I'd rather pay a "pro" subscription NOT to get those "ads" but that's just me.

Certainly need to give this some more thought - perhaps Tom will host a Podcast "panel" or something to talk about it...

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