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Idea for Twitter monetization: priority access to RegEx spaces for usernames
Twitter could enable users to pay for priority access to certain bounded regular expressions of twitter handles for a variable annual fee (based on their expected popularity) . For example paying for TED* would give you first access to claim all the unclaimed handles in that regex space, e.g. TED, TEDMed, TEDBirdLaw, etc.,. Naturally there would have to be some throttling on how many you can actually claim, and the allowed RegExs would have to be restricted to not be overly broad. Thoughts?