{"id":5623,"date":"2011-03-23T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T08:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5623"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:11:58","slug":"how-twitter-can-really-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5623","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter can really make money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/twitter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0000\/2755\/2755v30-max-450x450.png\" alt=\"Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun...\" width=\"220\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via CrunchBase<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/en\/twitter\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Twitter<\/a> just tried that useless sponsored trend bar that is of no benefit to users known as the &#8220;dickbar&#8221;.\u00a0 After this failure, Twitter will probably try regular ads. That will be less annoying but still not the current Twitter experience.\u00a0 Now one way Twitter could make tons of money and keep their wonderful experience intact is to charge businesses.\u00a0\u00a0 How would this work?\u00a0 Well if a brand wants to be on Twitter, and most brands in the world already are, so say if they want to STAY on twitter, they will be charged something like $10 per month per every 1000 followers they have on Twitter.\u00a0 Why would the brands pay?\u00a0 Because they use twitter to reach their customers.\u00a0 In this way it is brands that will think about how to make the best use of Twitter and Twitter continues to look and feel the same way while they make money for bringing followers to businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/en\/facebook\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facebook\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Facebook<\/a> could do the same btw, charge businesses to open pages and groups and let people do it for free.<\/p>\n<p>In all this I would make an exception for media businesses or businesses who enrich the eco system.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/3991237704\">Why the Quick Bar (&#8220;dickbar&#8221;) is still so offensive<\/a> (marco.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carpeaqua.com\/2011\/03\/20\/the-real-problem-with-dicks-bar\/\">Justin Williams on Twitter&#8217;s Dickbar<\/a> (carpeaqua.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffrock.com\/post\/3946391395\/mandatory-racism\">Jeff Rock on Twitter&#8217;s Dickbar<\/a> (jeffrock.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/twitter-employees-build-an-actual-dickbar-bar-2011-3\">Twitter Employees Build An Actual #Dickbar Bar<\/a> (businessinsider.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=d09ca64c-2f2b-4fb4-8440-39eb54be415b\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"zem-script more-info pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5623\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter just tried that useless sponsored trend bar that is of no benefit to users known as the &#8220;dickbar&#8221;.\u00a0 After this failure, Twitter will probably try regular ads. 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