77 ways twitter could make money
a brainstorm by the www.boardofinnovation.com
10 building blocks
product reputationservice experience
attention moneyless money
company
clientexposure
Twitter service today
twitter user
Current user base
twitter user
Who is going to pay?The twitter user?
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twitter user
Who is going to pay?The twitter user?
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twitter user
3th party app(second type of ‘users’)
Some appsmake money!
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
1Ask fees to successful 3th party apps
Current user base
2Sell virtual gifts
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3Offer mobile app with exclusive features
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4Assist users in reputation building
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5Paid Q/A service (Where can I ...)
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6Let people pay for more then 140
characters
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7Ask small subscription fee
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8Offer a twitter portal for professional
twitters
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9Sell products that show relevant tweets
(similar to digital photo frames)
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10Ask money to see private/locked twitter
users
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11Group buying
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12Insert twitter suggest feature
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13Offer paid streams (horoscope, wheater,...)
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15Open twitter saving account similar to
banks
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16Add paid interactive tools to front page
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17Let people pay for highly profiled
recommendations
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18Sell poken-like off-line communication tool
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19Sell special print editions
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20Sex sells, do something with it...
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21Let people sell stuff inside of twitter
Sell Twit-shirts
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23Ask for donations
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24Add profile based breaking news service
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25Create secondary totally independent
business
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26Force users with a lot of followers to pay
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27Let users in group pay to kick trolls
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28Offer a group twitter account
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29Let companies pay to remove negative
tweets
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30Ask money to keep on following high level
people
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31Add a premium user highway
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32Build out a pyramid scheme for new users
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33Ask commission for twitter group booking
for events (e.g. Twunch)
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34Create system of gift cards to rent Twitter
space
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35Roll out Twitter experience stores
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36Ask money to remove your account and
history
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37Ask money to fake the follower/following
amount
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38Ask money to fake the follower/following
amount
Advertising based
39Replace letters with brand logos similar to
MSN Messenger
Advertising based
Advertising based
40.Add profiled ads between tweets
Advertising based
41Take commission on people that place paid
tweets (ads)
Advertising based
42Add brand names at the end of twitter
messages
Advertising based
43Mailings with advertising triggered by
certain tweets
Advertising based
44Offer branded themes
Advertising based
45Add regular text ads and banners to the
front page
Other parties
Other parties
46Offer data insight reports for marketing
purposes,...
Other parties
47Earn on real time searches or data insights
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48Take commission on Charity donations
Other parties
49Offer in-game Twitter services
Other parties
50Sell the brand name
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51Try some co-branding
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52Launch a ‘twitter approved’ label
Other parties
53Sell marketing/ brand reports to companies
Other parties
54Sell profile information of the users
Other parties
55Offer the twitter back-end as stand-alone
application for other purposes
Other parties
56Just sell the company
Other parties
57Become a micro-payment facilitator
Other parties
58Sell merchandise
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59Install controlled crowd review system
Other parties
60Launch 1h speed auctions
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61Let people rent exclusive twitternames for
a month
Other parties
62Offer a white label platform
Other parties
63Integrate twitter into products to let them
communicate their status
Other parties
64Give awards, ask money to be nominated
Other parties
65Active alerts to companies:
‘# people are talking about you’
Other parties
66Ask money to shut down service
Other parties
67Create job platform
Other parties
68Help other companies with lawsuits against
twitter users and take commission
Other parties
74Partner with telecom operators
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69Offer a consulting service to companies
Other parties
70Add sponsored contests
Other parties
71Add a emergency twitter feed paid by the
government
Other parties
72Ask money to become a Twitter employee
for a while
Other parties
73Ask money for not talking about something
(blocking system)
Other parties
74Ask money see someone's identity
Other parties
75Create special event-twitter application
Other parties
76Add lottery or gambling system
Other parties
77Fraud & run...
...can you find another example?
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