Dear Twitter. I Want To Share My Revenue With You.

That makes good sense. It also helps cement a business relationship that would be much more solid than the loose structure in place right now.<p>After all, who will you complain to if one day twitter decides that tweetminer has to die. Better if you have a win/win and it costs them too if they shut you down.<p>These 'third party products' on top of other peoples infrastructure are a recent thing, and I have to admit I'm still getting used to it and not really comfortable with it.<p>A project like that should be called a 'feature', it's not an independent business by any definition, even if it does make money.

Don't worry, you'll be able to. I imagine what's going to happen with Twitter will be the same thing that will happen with Facebook, just faster. They might even beat Facebook across the finish line. It's a pretty simple plan really:<p>1. Build a product that gets lots of users. (check) 2. Build a platform on it that is easy and compelling to develop for so third parties can build apps. (check) 3. Let developers figure out how to make money off of those apps. (currently in progress) 4. Create a payment system to make accepting payments from Twitter customers as easy as tweeting, take a cut of the revenue from that.

Considering the value of Twitter was really created by all the third-party apps that use it, it is very possible that a model where third-party developers bring in the revenue isn't so far off from what may happen.

Perhaps building a micropayment service would get Twitter the much talked about revenue??? An option to pay anybody on Twitter by mobile would be great. Kind of like the App Store, you pay by Twitter and the sum + service charges get added to your monthly phone bill.

How much of a business do you believe can be built around Twitter?<p>This is not to sound sarcastic or not. I made use of the Twitter API back in 2007 to deliver mobile content and RSS to SMS, but those were just features of an application and not a business that relies on Twitter.<p>Do you really believe the Twitter ecosystem is viable for business in the long term?