@Ev / @BizStone: I'd like to up my bid from $100 a year to $250 a year for a "Twitter Pro" Account. Please, please, please setup a "Pro" server for folks who are using Twitter as part of their business and who really can't afford for it to be down. I'm talking to 2,000 folks 10x a day right now... that's 20,000 touch points per day, 400,000 a month and like 5,000,000 messages you are sending out for me... A YEAR! Let me pay you please.
Twitter is how I stay in touch with my core, most dedicated, peoples.... that last week has been really hard for me. Please let me pay you...please.
Twitter Pro -- $250 a year?
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(Page 1 of 1)2. AMEN!!!!
Posted at 12:33PM on May 17th 2007 by C.C. Chapman
3. WOW. You like it THAT much?
-curiously watching how others use Twitter for business
Posted at 12:34PM on May 17th 2007 by Laura Athavale Fitton
4. $25.00 a month is not out of the question. I would take that for a premium Twitter service. With some added features.
Posted at 12:37PM on May 17th 2007 by Jim Turner
6. This whole thing so reminds me of the days when Blogger was holding fundraisers so that Ev could buy another server to try and keeps things running. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Posted at 12:51PM on May 17th 2007 by Michael K Pate
7. I agree.
Twitter failing due to Ruby on Rails performance and scaling issues is not good. Many are rejecting Twitter and moving over to Jaiku, JetSetMix, and other asynchronous chat/status updaters.
I feel really weirded out when Twitter is down. Used to feel that way when Blogger was down.
I now use email very rarely and have to force myself to update my blogs. Twitter is more immediate, more interactive via @ and DM.
Twitter forces us to be pithy, which is a marketable skill.
I also would pay for a Twitter Pro that was more reliable, had better "in reply to" (like Jaiku "comment" function?), and some other optional features.
Posted at 12:52PM on May 17th 2007 by vaspers the grate
8. I would pay that much for twitter pro too if @ev and gang came up with such an offering, I have been experimenting with twitter at my office, where the staff logs in to the office on twitter, and updates on "what are you doing" every time they are doing something new. It seems to me that this has increased work efficiency many-fold and folks are enjoying twittering about work.
This can be an awesome business model for twitter - one that many small to mid-size companies would be EASILY willing pay $250/yr for.
Posted at 3:30PM on May 17th 2007 by Pranav Chavda
9. ...Twitter is down again, sparks adoption of Jaiku...
Posted at 5:14PM on May 17th 2007 by Brian Solis
10. I would pay $300 a year and throw in a good bottle of wine!
Jason, Great blog!! Already sending it to my friends
Brit
Posted at 5:35PM on May 17th 2007 by Britney Mason
11. Why don't you just invest on it and define a good business model for them?
Posted at 6:44PM on May 17th 2007 by Consultor Anónimo
13. Jason I am with you... As you can see on my post on my blog (http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/05/18/the-value-of-twitter/) $250 for 5million sms msg's would be a steal. Hope it happens.
Posted at 2:27PM on May 18th 2007 by todd sawicki
14. Jason, I totally agree--a twitter hardware upgrade is a must.
Posted at 3:39PM on May 18th 2007 by Bill Hartzer
15. >400,000 a month
If only 25% of your followers use SMS alerts your account is costing Twitter a cool $3000-$4000 per month !!!
This model has no future.
Posted at 7:00PM on May 18th 2007 by Klaus
1. i can pay 100$ for a most dedicated servers to ProAccount twitterers...
what do you think of my twittergift??? http://www.blublog.it/2007/05/17/twittergift/
Posted at 12:32PM on May 17th 2007 by Luca Moretto