Thread: Twitter paid business accounts

Companies will have to pay to use microblogging site Twitter, starting next year, according to its co-founder, Biz Stone. Although companies are not forced to register for a paid account, this will provide several advantages, which will include statistics and detailed feedback.

This takes advantage of some of the commercial use of Twitter we've seen from businesses like airlines and big box stores. We want to present to them a layer of features that allows them to become better at Twitter, show them some of the analytics.

Twitter, which is valued at 1 billion dollars, has not established yet a business model for the paid service, which could prove a real gold mine site.
Also, Stone said he's considering the possibility of partnerships with media organizations, which often visit Twitter for finding information. For example, news about earthquakes or terrorist attacks have appeared, first, on Twitter, before being taken over by large media organizations.

There is a site which already actually does this as a plugin.

Yes, but you would still have to pay to continue using twitter, if you are a company :)