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this is just stupid noone will pay for friends. I more or less have one of those blank accounts, I just follow people, but I get a few requests here and there by random people who want to follow me...and the account doesn't have any information in the profile, nor a picture.

They should work on adding new features that businesses are looking for...and then create a separate level of accounts for businesses and charge a monthly fee for that.

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I agree no one will pay for friends. You can get them easily enough without paying, just by interacting with people and searching for users that Twit about relevant stuff.

As much as people here think advertising is boring, I think Twitter could actually have a great contextual ad business. As long as the ads are relevant. If someone Twitters about HD TVs, would they not be especially be engaged by an ad for TV's? What about people who tweet about flights seeing ads from airlines? There is a lot of potential there.

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