A quick thought about twitter.

So there's all this stuff about business models, right? No one knows how twitter is supposed to make money. Thus far it hasn't mattered. Everyone with cash to throw around is anxious to throw money at twitter. At some point they're going to have to make money though. But how? Ads? I hope not.

I was tweeting the other day and for some reason, I kept bumping up against the API limit. For the uninitiated, the API limit is basically the maximum number of requests an account can make to the twitter servers from a third-party client in an hour. So if you're using Tweetdeck to tweet, you can only ping the twitter servers 100 times per hour. Searches, refreshing your stream of tweets, sending tweets... everything. The requests are account specific, so using another app won't help.

That's why you see a lot of copmany reps and other heavy users using the web interface a lot. The web interface is not great. So here's my proposal. Offer the ability to pay for access to a higher API limit. I have not looked into this. Maybe they already do this in some capacity. If not, they should.

The word 'tweet' has lost all meaning to me now...