I’m getting back to the blog. I found this article this week called “Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp.” In sum, one may have the priveledge of being paid for their tweets. Who would like to pay for my tweets? Nobody, I am not glamourous. Let’s move onto Britney Spears. This service will allow you pay for her tweets and receive her tweets as DMs. This is a publishing model for celebrities. Hmmm, I don’t think Super Chirp will receive my payment for tweets. You however, can pay 0.99 to $9.99 per month to get these kind of tweets. Why am in disinterested and having more fun without this noise?
- DM messages – I haven’t found anyone who likes these. This service makes me tweak, it’s like paying someone to provide you with email overload.
- Real-time – In my real-time, I can find amazing tweets already, for free. Will this always be the case? I don’t know, time will tell. But since I am already enjoying this, why rock the boat. Also, real-time need not be consumed with knowing about Britney’s latest hairstyle. If I am in the mood, a two second glance at the latest trash mag in the grocery checkout lane will fix that.
- Who Will Super Chirp? – It’s a nice idea for charities, in theory. i.e. That is you would pay for these charities tweets and aid the cause. In reality, it’s just another textual item in your day, whereby the real message becomes a fleeting thought.
For me, it’s a hard sell. Now back to my fab free tweetastic fun.
isn’t/won’t there be a market for (near) real time expertise? like for stock/investing info, for example?
Sure. I think that could be the case if the publishing model was directed toward organizations who have individuals employed in the act of trading and the organizations are in support of the use of Twitter as a real-time tool to assist in the workflow. But in that example, as I am not a trader, I don’t know if the information provided to me in a tweet would be sufficient for me to use to make a real-time decisions. I think we are far from that scenario today. Or I could be an individual using such a service to make my own investing decisions. I just think it would be awhile before the individual who wants this service, for that purpose, will demand it.