WIRED
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/twitter-to-launch-business-tools-by-year-end-biz-stone/NEW YORK — Micro-blogging site Twitter plans to introduce tools and services by year-end to help businesses serve their customers, and may charge fees for such services, co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday.
“We’re looking at who’s using Twitter and for what,” Stone told the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York via videolink from San Francisco. “Are there any commercial usages that are making a lot of sense?”
Twitter, a two-year-old, venture capital-backed company that lets people send 140-character messages, or Tweets, has enjoyed explosive growth in recent months. Visitors to Twitter jumped 83 percent in April from the previous month, to reach 17 million, according to comScore data.
Twitter is searching for ways to make money from its popularity. Stone said “phase one” of that effort was spent collecting intelligence on how people use the service.
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