Om Malik is Not Next Bond Villain…

… and so say all of us, but think about it for just a moment those of you who know and love Om, he’d make such a great Bond villain, ‘open source cloud computing Mr Bond?’.

Om has a great post about how Twitter might actually turn it’s hype into a scalable business, in short it’s a Scoble Tax, or so it shall be called hence forth. Essentially charge users with over 100 followers, charge people who send over 500 updates a week, charge them $10, go freemium or go for another major outage when your user base might be less forgiving.

‘This would also fit the Freemium business model that Twitter investor Fred Wilson so loves. And at the same time, it would help Twitter overcome its abhorrence for adding advertising to the messages. I think many of us have a lot to gain from the service: My alerts about my posts on the system are a form of advertising for my work, and generate enough attention that paying for the service makes lot of sense.’

Hey I’d pay $10 per month to keep Facebook clear of all the crapola that dogs the wannabee next new operating system, for more on how this won’t happen read the fragrant Kara Swisher, who I’m beginning to form some sort of ‘you write really well’ tech crush on.

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