Twitter Pro Accounts And Wish Lists

Wall Street Journal reported today that Twitter is going to be offering paid accounts for Twitter. No word on when this will be made available but this is the start of Twitter's push to monetize their service. But just what is a Twitter pro? And what features would be part of that type of user? Here's my thoughts and what I would like to see in my own Twitter wish list.

Are you a Twitter pro?

I don't even know what that would be. Would it be like twittering 24 hours a day and having 300,000 followers breathing down your keyboard? Seems to me it would be something that Twitter would offer to users that want to heavily promote themselves. Like your consumer and retail companies wanting to get their brand out there.

Twitter Wish List

Here's my wish list that I'm starting. I'm sure it will grow over time as I use Twitter more.

• Top friends list

  Myspace has a top 40 friends list. Why not Twitter? Instead of showing the top 20 or so Twitter friends based on when they joined, how about letting us choose who we want to show in our list by default?

• Custom themes

  How about allowing us to custom theme our Twitter profile? Currently Twitter users can only slap a new background and change colors. If there is going to be mass introduction to Twitter, this is one of the features that is necessary.

• Voting Tweets

  Lets have a way to vote on someone's tweets. Thumbs up and thumbs down maybe would work best and an overall score so we know who is just spamming and who isn't.

• Ignore

  Some of your Twitter friends can be, well, quite chatty. There are times when I don't want to block someone but would rather silence their output. Allow us to ignore someone (not block) and show us an ignore list that allows us to toggle those people on and off.

• Threaded View

  Change the view so that we can see responses to an original post, threaded style. Each user's profile would essentially be a bulletin board of twits.

• Taggable Twitters

  In the profile settings, allow each Twitter to uniquely identify him/herself freely. Like if I wanted to tag myself as a entrepreneur, then let me do that. Social communities are built on the idea of people with like interests. Let me search on those who fall in the same tag category.

With Myspace, everyone complains at any inkling of the service going pay. So with Twitter, they really have to offer something of significant value to help me drive my motivations to get into my wallet. I don't think they have proven that yet.

What it boils down to is this - can Twitter bring my websites meaningful traffic that I would want to pay for?