77 ways twitter could make money a brainstorm by the www.boardofinnovation.com
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product
service
exposure
attention
experience
less money
reputation
money
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Twitter service today
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Current user base
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Who is going to pay? The twitter user?
Current user base
twitter user
Who is going to pay? The twitter user?
Current user base 3th party app (second type of ‘users’)
Some apps make money! twitter user
Before we start 1. Consider these examples as a rough brainstorm to show the potential 2. Some solutions bring in money but do have big disadvantages. 3. This is just a random list of ideas
Current user base
Ask fees to successful 3th party apps
1
Current user base
Sell virtual gifts
2
Current user base
Offer mobile app with exclusive features
3
Current user base
Assist users in reputation building
4
Current user base
Paid Q/A service (Where can I ...)
5
Current user base
Let people pay for more then 140 characters
6
Current user base
Ask small subscription fee
7
Current user base
Offer a twitter portal for professional twitters
8
Current user base
Sell products that show relevant tweets (similar to digital photo frames)
9
Current user base
Ask money to see private/locked twitter users
10
Current user base
Group buying
11
Current user base
Insert twitter suggest feature
12
Current user base
Offer paid streams (horoscope, wheater,...)
13
Current user base
Open twitter saving account similar to banks
15
Current user base
Add paid interactive tools to front page
16
Current user base
Let people pay for highly profiled recommendations
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Current user base
Sell poken-like off-line communication tool
18
Current user base
Sell special print editions
19
Current user base
Sex sells, do something with it...
20
Current user base
Let people sell stuff inside of twitter
21
Current user base
Sell Twit-shirts
22
Current user base
Ask for donations
23
Current user base
Add profile based breaking news service
24
Current user base
Create secondary totally independent business
25
Current user base
Force users with a lot of followers to pay
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Current user base
Let users in group pay to kick trolls
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Current user base
Offer a group twitter account
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Current user base
Let companies pay to remove negative tweets
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Current user base
Ask money to keep on following high level people
30
Current user base
Add a premium user highway
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Current user base
Build out a pyramid scheme for new users
32
Current user base
Ask commission for twitter group booking for events (e.g. Twunch)
33
Current user base
Create system of gift cards to rent Twitter space
34
Current user base
Roll out Twitter experience stores
35
Current user base
Ask money to remove your account and history
36
Current user base
Ask money to fake the follower/following amount
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Current user base
Ask money to fake the follower/following amount
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Advertising based
Replace letters with brand logos similar to MSN Messenger
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Advertising based
Advertising based
Add profiled ads between tweets
40.
Advertising based
Take commission on people that place paid tweets (ads)
41
Advertising based
Add brand names at the end of twitter messages
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Advertising based
Mailings with advertising triggered by certain tweets
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Advertising based
Offer branded themes
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Advertising based
Add regular text ads and banners to the front page
45
Other parties
Other parties
Offer data insight reports for marketing purposes,...
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Other parties
Earn on real time searches or data insights
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Other parties
Take commission on Charity donations
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Other parties
Offer in-game Twitter services
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Other parties
Sell the brand name
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Other parties
Try some co-branding
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Other parties
Launch a twitter approved label
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Other parties
Sell marketing/ brand reports to companies
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Other parties
Sell profile information of the users
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Other parties
Offer the twitter back-end as stand-alone application for other purposes
55
Other parties
Just sell the company
56
Other parties
Become a micro-payment facilitator
57
Other parties
Sell merchandise
58
Other parties
Install controlled crowd review system
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Other parties
Launch 1h speed auctions
60
Other parties
Let people rent exclusive twitternames for a month
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Other parties
Offer a white label platform
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Other parties
Integrate twitter into products to let them communicate their status
63
Other parties
Give awards, ask money to be nominated
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Other parties
Active alerts to companies: # people are talking about you
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Other parties
Ask money to shut down service
66
Other parties
Create job platform
67
Other parties
Help other companies with lawsuits against twitter users and take commission
68
Other parties
Partner with telecom operators
74
Other parties
Offer a consulting service to companies
69
Other parties
Add sponsored contests
70
Other parties
Add a emergency twitter feed paid by the government
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Other parties
Ask money to become a Twitter employee for a while
72
Other parties
Ask money for not talking about something (blocking system)
73
Other parties
Ask money see someone's identity
74
Other parties
Create special event-twitter application
75
Other parties
Add lottery or gambling system
76
Other parties
Fraud & run...
77
can you find another example?
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