Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone has already released information that Twitter has been making improvements on the site with the goal of making it commercial. More and more businesses are using Twitter by the day and they thought that they should monetize on this by helping businesses get more out of Twitter with a fee.
This is where the premium accounts will come in. Twitter will now be providing businesses certified accounts so that their business names will not be taken by someone else. They have done this for celebrities and they will do this for businesses as well. Another is to set up an analytics system which will let people know how a certain account is faring on Twitter.
But as Biz Stone has said, these are just ideas. They will probably release a trial version so they can fully assess which features are the market willing to pay for. But we can expect the features to come out later on this year.
Does this mean that anytime someone speaks about their website, announcing new products for instance, that they are going to require a paid user account?
And how are they going to monitor this? It is one thing to protect a company’s name which is the right way to handle it, but who is going to police all the spam and stop these people from using Twitter and not paying the fee?