Twitter Japan Introduces Payment Model
“Twitter Japan has further moved to differentiate itself from its global counterpart through the introduction of a tiered payment model that will charge audiences to view tweets from premium Twitter accounts.
Speaking at the Mobidec2009 conference earlier this week, Kenichi Sugi, COO of DG Mobile – a subsidiary of Japanese Twitter partner Digital Garage – announced that Twitter would introduce paid subscription options starting in January that will allow account holders to charge audiences who want to look at their tweets and access links to their external websites.”
With the pending Bing/WSJ deal, Murdoch’s continued staunch positioning and the newly rumored conglomerate of magazine publishers coming together to create content protection against Apple, 2010 will undoubtably be a huge year for the shift to more paid content online.
Broadly, I think having the option for users to monetize their channels makes sense and it will be curious to see if Twitter in the US rolls out a similar type of model.
