Comments on: Would You Pay for Subscription Tweets?

By: jaygoldman

jaygoldman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:51:47 +0000

Joe - That's a great parallel. A quick look at the world of 'premium SMS' content shows some stuff like Making Premium SMS Pay in the United States, which suggests that this market is booming in Asia and Europe. Looks like there are a ton of companies working to bring PSMS to the North American market: Quios, ClearSky, etc. Wonder if any of them are looking at the space?

By: jaygoldman

jaygoldman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:45:44 +0000

Joe — That's a great parallel. A quick look at the world of 'premium SMS' content shows some stuff like Making Premium SMS Pay in the United States, which suggests that this market is booming in Asia and Europe. Looks like there are a ton of companies working to bring PSMS to the North American market: Quios, ClearSky, Mobile Storm, etc. Wonder if any of them are looking at the space?

By: Alistair

Alistair — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:18:31 +0000

Not a chance.

By: Joe Davison

Joe Davison — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:18:22 +0000

It's certainly an interesting idea. Another parallel is the people who pay to receive text messages on their phone (jokes, etc).

On twitter, I think this business model might work in micro-niches, where the content is for a VERY specific audience, and there's no other way of getting it in a different channel for free.

By: Jamie McQuay

Jamie McQuay — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:48:09 +0000

"Would you pay $10 a year for access to the best restaurant reviews in your town, sent straight to your Twitter account?"
no way.
I would use Urban spoon on my iPhone and let it find the restaurants around me… much better then scrolling through 140 characters of nothing more than a links to blog posts.

anyways, the best restaurant reviews are the comments under the actual review… twitter is megaphone, not a conversation.