‘Hill Tweet News’ Moves To Super Chirp
June 9, 2009, 6:52pm
Back in March, I tested the waters of subscription tweets by launching a service called “Hill Tweet News.” The idea was to give everyone who follows Congress a central portal to the best tweets by lawmakers.
The policy community wouldn’t have to “follow” every member of Congress on Twitter and read every single tweet. Instead, they could just follow me, and journalist with nearly two decades of experience covering Washington policy and politics, and let me filter the congressional Twitter stream so they only received the most informative and entertaining tweets.
The idea sparked some interest and a few potential subscribers, but no one ever took the step of paying for the service. I was investing a few hours a night to pull it together, but without any revenue to show for it, I decided after about a month of tweeting and promoting the feature by word of mouth, the return on my investment of time wasn’t worth it.
Today, however, I read about a new service called Super Chirp that lets Twitter users charge subscription fees for direct messages sent through Twitter. Users can set their own subscription rates, and Super Chirp takes a cut for handling the business transactions.
I like the idea, so I’m going to make another run at “Hill Tweet News.” If your professional life inside or outside the Beltway revolves around what members of Congress say and do, you need to subscribe. And if you just love politics and policy, you’ll want to subscribe.
Let AirCongress streamline your social media life at “Hill Tweet News.”
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