Some Business Models which Twitter may Use in Future

Now this post is for all those who think are wondering that how does Twitter make money. Till now Twitter has not started the invasion but soon it will. Twitter has traffic, Twitter has about 6 million active users so now what? Its time for some Money Making

Here are some of these Expected business models for twitter –

• Twitter May Start Charging people for putting them in the suggested users list. Yes more followers = more tweet readers = more product sales or website traffic. This is the whole funda behind it. Dell had complete about 1 million sales on via twitter and is now holding special discounts for only those people who follow dell. Its a nice idea and twitter may get some great success from it. Now only time will tell. Also this feature is currently live but for now it is not “Premium” so guys if you are lucky you may appear out there. Remember people always go out for “More Exposure”.
• Now these model is mostly related with the above one but here the suggested users is placed directly on the profile page itself so therefore giving more exposure to visitors. I don’t like this one because here the idea would be getting into someone’s personal profile page. Well its all part of a game called money so this may be a possibility.
• Now comes the most common one, search advertising. There can be a little change out here. Instead of placing some Banner ads they can advertise Twitter Profiles by matching them to the keyword. Also they can show something like a featured tweet from a fellow twitter sponsor. This one is a great idea but if compared with above Ideas this idea will not receive Direct exposure as the medium here is Search.
• Another Idea may be like charging people for usage above their limits. This table will give you an Idea –
  

  20,000+ followers	$25/Year
  5,000+ Tweets	$50/Year
  2,000+ following	$40/Year
  Unlimited Usage	$900/ Six Months

• Another Twitter Business Model May be like People May be charged to use Api Applications like TweetDeck and many others. This may create complete a big problem for those twitter users who are highly depended on them. Then you may have two choices left – Either Use Api Apllications on Twitter by paying or Log Off.

Let me tell you that these are just “Expected Twitter Models” and are not being applied right now so “Chill”.

Thanks to Twitter Business Book.