The news of the day in social media land: Twitter is apparently going to start experimenting with paid premium accounts through its Japanese subsidiary, which has always been a bit separated from the rest of Twitter and in many ways a playground for the company (Groups, Twicco, Twitvideo.jp).
Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge people to view tweets from certain premium Twitter accounts.
Update: TC contributor Serkan Toto (who’s based in Japan) followed up with six reasons why this subscription model might just work out well for Twitter … in Japan. → Read More
Everything awesome always happens in Japan first. Even, it seems, when it involves an American startup. Digital Garage, Twitter’s partner with Twitter Japan, launched Twicco, a site that lets Twitter users create groups and then subscribe to them.
Loic Le Meur got a demo, and the video is below. Twicco is available now in Japanese only, other languages will be available later.
This isn’t much different, at first glance, to Friendfeed Rooms. It’s odd that Twitter will do this via a separate site instead of just treating Rooms as resources that you can subscribe to directly on Twitter. Or maybe they are. It’s all Japanese to me. → Read More
