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I think Twitter can really pivot to become the first aggregated MicroPayments platform.

An all-you-can eat option: $10/Month - Read any news, blog, whatnot, follow anyone, tweet to anyone, upload anykind of media

A-la-cart: pay 0.01$ after reading the 140 character summary for full article access, pay 0.05$ for full tweet stream access to some really useful accounts, etc

Free: Every fourth tweet is an ad, You get only previews of articles, and only a portion of the Tweetstream of really useful content.

Twitter can then kick-back some dough to the content publishers.

Twitter maintains and controls the payment info already anyway. If they get ambitious they can hook into buying and selling as well.



There is a huge jump in $0 and $5, which is the minimum funding amount for cc fees to not be huge. You'd see a mass user exodus.




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