Paid Twitter coming your way

Twitter, the two-year-old web phenomenon, plans to remain a free site, but look for Twitter to develop some services that will cost you. Exactly what those are remains to be seen, and it is still unclear how this very hot website plans to make money.

"I think by the end of the year we'll have something out there," company co-founder Biz Stone told Computer World. "It doesn't have to be this super home run in terms of making billions of dollars...But it has to show a little bit of signs of life, telling folks, 'Yes Twitter can be a sustainable business.'"

Stone said Twitter has hired a full-time product manager who is looking at ways to sell data to corporate users, for example, a paid directory that lists corporate Twitter accounts. If there's any story you should be following, it is the future for Twitter, a remarkable site that came out of the shadows and blew everyone away. Everyone is on Twitter, right? So are federal government agencies and big corporations. You can follow us at http://twitter.com/FierceCIO.

For more on paid Twitter:
- check out this ComputerWorld.com article

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