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I forecast it 43% likely. The most obvious but most annoying way

Uber-networking darling Twitter continues to grow and grow amid a blurb of blog chatter on how it can evolve and monetize itself.

So, let's take a look at the most obvious way it can monetize? Sponsored Tweets...

By this I mean Tweets that have been paid for. Annoying? Yes. Difficult to police? Certainly. But think of how free radio, texts, etc are brought to the public on other platforms...the model is basically, 'you get the service free as long as you don't mind seeing the occasional paid message'.

I agree this model is tenuous and could lead to even more annoying commercial messaging amongst an already cluttered stream of noise. So why not combine his model with a team of human drones that trawl Twitter accounts to flag up blatant marketing spammers, threatening to shut them down or pay to advertise? This could work...maybe...

Check out some further discussion from back in 2007 on Download Squad on how Twitter can monetize, including the obvious 'pro account'.

So, will be see 'sponsored tweets' or a similar mechanism taking control of the Twittersphere anytime soon?

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  andrewfisher forecast it as 6% likely, 12 days ago

  Success rate: 29% | Status: Chump | My site | My Twitter page

  no because they'll use adwords
  ads in 140 characters or less using google's adwords system.
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  jazzye4 forecast it as 100% likely, about 1 month ago

  Success rate: 4% | Status: Newbie | My site

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  matteo forecast it as 20% likely, about 1 month ago

  Success rate: 20% | Status: Oracle

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  dadeeee forecast it as 90% likely, 3 months ago

  Success rate: 0% | Status: Newbie

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  Fusedhead forecast it as 50% likely, 9 months ago

  Success rate: 25% | Status: Chump

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  ghathaway3 forecast it as 57% likely, 9 months ago

  Success rate: 20% | Status: Fortune Cookie

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  myqute forecast it as 11% likely, 10 months ago

  Success rate: 6% | Status: Chump | My Twitter page

  
  I don't think so. Because Twitter can also allow premium Twitter members to block out any monetized tweets, this will greatly de-value the ones paying for tweets to be blasted out. I think Twitter will monetize in other ways. Just my 2 cents!
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  cshepherd forecast it as 20% likely, 10 months ago

  Success rate: 22% | Status: Rookie With Moves

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  kayla8 forecast it as 42% likely, 11 months ago

  Success rate: 11% | Status: Wonder Child

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  TheFatController forecast it as 43% likely, 11 months ago

  Success rate: 5% | Status: Chump | My site

  The most obvious but most annoying way

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• Ends: 01 Apr 2010, 18:42 PM (GMT +00:00)
• Time left: 19 days
• Added: 11 months ago

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