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So Twitter = paying for threaded responses, perhaps? I've been saying this forever! - Mona Nomura

Mona: why not? I would pay for that and "pro" DM features, too. - Robert Scoble

Mona & Robert -- Threaded responses seems like a poor choice for a "pro" feature, as it fragments the user experience. I completely agree DM features that make DM usable could be a wonderful "pro" feature, especially from a business perspective. - Mark Philpot

Mark - have you seen Rejaw? What features and functouns would 'pro' DMs have? - Mona Nomura

Mona -- DM w/ groups/rooms. I guess similar to FF's rooms, but the ability to have a private side conversation among your friends, for example. The only issue is when you have "pro" features that depend on others having "pro" functionality. If you look at "pro" features at Flickr, Smugmug for example, their usefulness isn't dependent on the rest of the "pro" community. That will be the tough nut to crack - Mark Philpot

Maybe DM's with an increased character count... - Mark Philpot

Overall these services basically just have to look at ways people are already using their services for business, the models are endless. There is a model for bloggers like Scoble and all businesses like Nike, Zappos, and Dell. Find out the basic business objectives these companies are trying to achieve with Twitter and make it easier to achieve those objectives for a fee. - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

Humbly, but seriously, I just know if I could know "the rest of the story", and brainstorm with the Ev's, I could complete a monetization plan for them, AND please users at once. In some ways, the further we get from twittr, the greater the risk of killing the magic. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

while threaded discussions on twitter are something that I suspect many would pay for, I'd stick with the free version... on the other hand, as I alluded to in a comment at your blog, the tumblr personalization abilities (including a sub-dir on your own url) are valuable to me. Maintaining a brand in look and feel - by possibly making parts of their service play even better w outsiders - while offering a share of potential revenue to their top traffic users, would make a premium tumblr well worth it, imo. - Daniel Holter