Last night I listened to an interview that net@nite did with Twitter founder Evan Williams from earlier this month. Towards the end of the interview he talked about ways that they might monetize the Twitter platform in the future. The example that he gave was a movie promotion where you could follow the “tweets” of a character in an upcoming movie. This got me to thinking about where Twitter is going. I’m not saying I’m agreeing with the commercialization of Twitter, but how much longer will be it be until your Twitter page looks something like this?
5/29/2007 Update:
Delta Airlines is on Twitter now.
6/4/2007 Update:
Read/Write Web spotted Amazon.com on Twitter.
7/13/2007 Update:
JetBlue (one of the companies that I used as an example in my original post) is on Twitter now.
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I believe that this will happen. It almost has to happen given its current and growing popularity, not to mention the piggyback sites that twitter is inspiring like twittermap.com.
Jose
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