Would you pay to Tweet?

You know Twitter. At this time everybody knows it. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Okay let’s highlight the word free. Now if tomorrow you logged on to Twitter and were suddenly informed that it was now a premium service that was charging $1/month (ongoing) or $10/year to access the service, how would you react? Let’s say you had 30 days to make-up your mind and/or backup your stuff. After that, your account was unavailable – unless you paid.

The company confirms — for the first time we’ve seen, at least — age-old theories that they’ll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using the social media.

Twitter is easily worth $1/month to me. Twitter has an estimated 25 million users, and if everybody saw things like I do that would mean quarter-of-a-billion dollars of revenue per annum. Sure, I’d like to see that money invested back into Twitter.

On the other hand it will lose all that underground smell that we all love about micro-blogging on Twitter. But just like anywhere else in this world. It’s all about the money