Monetizing Twitter

by · March 26, 2009

Reuters reports:

The company is preparing to offer commercial accounts in which corporations and other types of businesses pay a fee to receive an enhanced version of Twitter, a free service that allows people to send short, 140-character text messages to their network of friends.

Read the full story here.

There were hints that this might be on the way in this radio interview two weeks ago.

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