# Twitter To Charge For Premium Accounts Later This Year - Host: [gigaom.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/gigaom.com/) - Saved: August 22, 2009 (2009-08-23T04:22:36Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0f06cb13e867/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0f06cb13e867.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) About Twitters plans to bring in $140 million in revenue next year ... some of it will come from charging users for premium accounts. The accounts will include detailed analytics and ID verification (so that businesses dont have to worry about having their brands hijacked by impostors); co-founder Biz Stone told VentureBeat that Twitter is in the first phase of rolling out these accounts. Twitter is also working on new APIs, or programming languages that companies can use to create apps (like TweetDeck), geared specifically toward business customers; Stone said the commercial APIs would be out later this year. The goal is to offer enterprises a suite of toolsfrom the APIs, the account verification and the premium analyticsthat they feel justified paying for. There has been tons of speculation around Twitters revenue-generation plans: yesterday I suggested that they were prepping to offer geotargeted ads; board member Todd Chaffee alluded to a potential e-commerce platform, while Kevin Thau, Twitters head of mobile business development, hinted at rev-sharing deals with wireless carriers and handset makers for its use as a mobile utility. Related Twitter To Add Location DataA Precursor To Geotargeted Ads? Twitter Expects $140 Million In Revenue By 2010 ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Twitter Used to Control Botnet](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f11faa92b42b/) (gigaom.com, August 15, 2009) - [Lifetime's Digital Strategy For Project Runway Includes Streaming On Demand For First Time](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/45d592b2c054/) (gigaom.com, August 20, 2009) - [On Mobiles, There’s No Stopping Webkit](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e00e8526b308/) (gigaom.com, August 24, 2009) - [Coworking News: Hacker Dojo Opens Its Doors](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7c087ed0eda3/) (gigaom.com, August 24, 2009) - [Finally, Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone Is Here](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/42758162a614/) (gigaom.com, August 27, 2009) ## Saved the same week - [Snow Leopard shipping status now moved to "PREPARED FOR SHIPMENT"](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/013ebce5db4c/) (9to5mac.com, August 22, 2009) - [Location, Location, Location](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fae92929ef43/) (blog.twitter.com, August 23, 2009) - [Dorthy.com: A (Semantic) Search Engine for Dreams](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5ddbaaf51ae5/) (readwriteweb.com, August 23, 2009) - [Wikimedia Celebrates Hewlett Grant](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/785a7f26335d/) (readwrite.com, August 23, 2009) - [Tech Support Cheat Sheet](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f0de75a86dde/) (xkcd.com, August 23, 2009) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gigaom.com/2009/08/21/419-twitter-to-get-premium-accounts-later-this-year/