Would Twitter Charge You for Friends?

Making money wasn't always the greatest concern for the founders of Twitter. It's success in terms of business interest practically came by accident, mirroring the thoughts of someone to lead the way in that department, it seems like a more relevant topic than ever. Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web (who likes to use shares some interesting thoughts on the subject, citing writes:

Who says you can't buy friends? $1 per user who takes the suggestion and opts in to getting messages from @JetBlue or @Zappos? That could happen. Could those companies keep their freshly purchased friends? Only if their Twitter output stayed interesting!

In order for this to work, Twitter is going to have to make these recommendations a lot more prominent in the user experience and it's going to have to increase the quality of the non-paid recommendations. Right now they don't look very exciting to us. We like to search

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We'll see what "business development guru" Kevin Thau has in store. Now that he is in place (and other important jobs