{"id":481,"date":"2009-08-31T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=481"},"modified":"2009-08-31T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T20:52:41","slug":"twitter-pro-personal-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/twitter-pro-personal-business\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Twitter Pro: Personal & Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter is taking over the world. I just read this post from Robert Scoble <\/a>that renewed my faith in the service and validated many of my previous thoughts on just how big it is getting not only in users but mindshare as well.<\/p>\n

That old question of monetizing the service continues to come up so I’d like to say that I’m fully prepared to pay for Twitter even if it means that I have to trick them into thinking I’m a business. In my opinion, pro features intended for businesses will still be useful to us normal users. Here is a list of feature requests I personally want with Twitter Pro that’s slated to be released by the end of 2009.<\/p>\n

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  1. Analytics (clicks, retweets, follows, unfollows, mindshare, my network view, stickiness of my content)<\/li>\n
  2. Reports (on-demand reports that allow me to export those analytics that Twitter is tracking)<\/li>\n
  3. Ad-Free. Supposedly Twitter will neve have ads but I’d like my pro account to filter out all ads<\/li>\n
  4. Extended Direct Message lengths. Extend it to 250 characters.<\/li>\n
  5. Improved “Find People” features<\/li>\n
  6. Spam filters (auto-DMs, Auto-follows & auto-replies are filtered out based on timing and tone of the tweets)<\/li>\n
  7. File transfer over Public or Direct Messages. Small under 1 megabyte images or audio files)<\/li>\n
  8. Groups (I will never use it but I might as well include it)<\/li>\n
  9. Data Portability (Twitter is a member of DataPortability but they hold your tweets hostage. No more!)<\/li>\n
  10. 99.99% Uptime Guaranteed<\/li>\n
  11. Improved Speed (pro users are on more powerful servers)<\/li>\n
  12. Ability to see conversations on Twitter.com (technology is there. it’s only used on search.twitter.com)<\/li>\n
  13. Twitter Store (Apparel, Shirts, Hats, Stickers)<\/li>\n
  14. Unlimited API Calls, Tweets, Direct Messages and Followers Per Hour (Too many limits now)<\/li>\n
  15. Better analysis of new followers (just like FriendFeed does)<\/li>\n
  16. Integration with TwitVite<\/li>\n
  17. Integration with TweetMic<\/li>\n
  18. Integration with TwitPic<\/li>\n
  19. Integration with YFrog<\/li>\n
  20. Integration with Twiddeo<\/li>\n
  21. Integration with Zannel<\/li>\n
  22. 6 Hour Response time to Support Inquiries (Premiere-Ticketing System)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Before you comment with something snarky, I’d like to say that any 5 of these features would do it for me but if all of these features were available, I’d pay….<\/p>\n

    $99 a month<\/p>\n

    That’s right. I would give Twitter $1200 a year if all of these features were enabled and the site was faster. A Pipe dream? Of course but I’ll settle for 5 of these for a cool $49 a year.