Twitter to offer paid for corporate accounts as added extra

A bit of a tweet deal for companies

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone today confirmed plans for paid-for corporate accounts on the microblogging giant. Within these new commercial accounts users will gain an enhanced experience with access to analytical tools and ways to gain feedback from their followers. In the interview with the BBC, Stone comments;  “One of the first things we’re going to do explicitly is commercial accounts and that is providing a special layer of access. Twitter will always be free to everyone whether it is commercial or personal, but you’ll be able to pay for an additional layer of access to learn more about your Twitter account to get some freed back to get some analytics to help you become a better twitter

Keen to stress the free and openness of Twitter, Biz also took a pop at Rupert Murdoch’s plans for paid content during the interview. He said that he “would love to see what happens” if Murdoch’s plans of banning Google were to happen. His take on the situation: “They should be looking at this as an opportunity to try something radically different and find out a way to make a ton of money from being radically open rather than some money from being ridiculously closed.” Stone was in the mood for talking having also tipped his hat at possible media company and search engine team ups in the near future, naming Google and Bing as companies that he would like to get involved with. Even with the possible commercial deals with Orange and Vodafone announced this week, the plans for the future and over 7 million users worldwide Stone believes “We have a lot of work to do”.

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