Biz Stone says that Twitter is poised to make money:

The products might include an “analytics dashboard” to help companies monitor Tweets about their business, or verified corporate Twitter accounts, Stone told reporters yesterday at an event in Mexico City.

First, there are a few things they really need to do:

• Explain why I (or anyone) would want a verified account. If I've had my (unverified) account for awhile, will it be hijacked otherwise?
• Explain whether the constant outages will be reduced to a dull roar from the current levels

You can't really charge for something that suffers small outages as often as Twitter does. I'm not sure how they fix that, given the kind of service they run, but there it is.

For a slightly different take on the revenue issue, check out TechCrunch.

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