Bad news Twitter - the polls show people just aren't interested in charges

Since the rumours of charges coming to Twitter set hold, people have (ironically) been tweeting strongly about their newly enlightened opinions of the infamous service. Over one third of businesses have said that they would not pay for Twitter if it began charging, according to an online poll. Some 40 percent of followers are stating that the site should remain free to everyone as it always has, and 11 percent have pointed out that the site can purely make its money through advertising. Sadly for Twitter, only 7 percent of followers in the poll have said that they would pay to monitor their name over Twitter, and 36 percent of those polled do not use Twitter and would not use Twitter as a marketing tool. The commotion began with Twitter's co-founder saying in an interview with Bloomberg last week that the firm was planning to charge businesses to verify their accounts, in an attempt to reduce the increasing incidents of intensive cyber squatting on the site. It is likely that Twitter will simply brush this off, with big named vendors such as Dell who will likely want to jump on the bandwagon in an effort to secure their brand... in a world that is evermore mad about "Tweeting".

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