http://beta.thestandard.com/predictions/suggestions/twitter-announces-payment-system Comments for "Twitter announces payment system" en http://beta.thestandard.com/predictions/suggestions/twitter-announces-payment-system <p><!--paging_filter-->On August 14, Twitter stops delivering outbound SMS in UK due to prohibitive costs. Twitter has been extremely popular and rumor abounds on when it will annouce the integration of a payment system to generate revenue and offset service costs. Some may consider this a pre-cursor to some payment system.</p> <p>Ev Williams of Twitter has made the statement “We don’t have any specific plans for a payment system, though that’s interesting,” he said. “But we definitely are striving for (and believe we can achieve) a built-in revenue model that is compatible with the open nature of Twitter and its ecosystem, rather than something tacked-on.”</p> <p><strong>The prediction is for Twitter to announce a payment system for integration to its ecosystem by end of March 2009.</strong></p> <p>Reference articles:<br /> <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/" title="http://blog.twitter.com/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.twitter.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/14/twitter" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/14/twitter" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/14/twitter</a><br /> <a href="http://www.hitsearchlimited.com/news/9991016/" title="http://www.hitsearchlimited.com/news/9991016/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hitsearchlimited.com/news/9991016/</a></p> http://beta.thestandard.com/predictions/suggestions/twitter-announces-payment-system#comments Blogging Social Networking Software &amp; Web startup Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:17:26 -0700 David Kuan 111763 at http://beta.thestandard.com