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That seems awfully counterproductive, and it would take about 30 minutes for someone to start republishing paid users' content.

Here are some ideas that I think would work way better:

- In-stream advertising (ala Twitteriffic)

- Charge a couple of bucks for mobile apps (or mobile app API access)

- Charge for premium, business-oriented features (multi-user accounts, autofollow, analytics, ability to receive DMs without following someone, custom CSS on profile page)

- Charge to vote on American Idol via Twitter



"it would take about 30 minutes for someone to start republishing paid users' content."

That'd be something that Twitter should be able to keep on top of, at least for naive automated retweets...

The more I think about it, the more I think it might work. Especially if they can get micropayments worked out.


Well, if anyone had any doubts:

https://twitter.com/#!/freenyt




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