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The Bits Blog at the New York Times has reported that Twitter has just received $35 million dollars in capital from Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital. Wowzas. I’ll let you sit on that for a second…

Now your reaction should not so much be, “Wow. Twitter is that awesome.” No. Though I love Twitter, its awesomeness is not what influences venture capital to invest so much money. You got it–it is its ability to be somehow monetized. These capital firms are looking at one thing right now: growth in users, which is at 900% in the last year. WTF?

But the question for all of us who use Twitter and/or do Internet studies is what will this look like? According to the Times, they are going to do something quite amazing–”charging businesses for certain features they can use to talk to customers on Twitter.”

(Wow. Such great detail in the reporting. zOMG!)

I still don’t know what that means. Does that mean companies can direct message Twitter users? Or that they can follow them? Or is it selling our email info? I’m still curious as to how Twitter is going to actually play this out but I’m rather wary. I know they are up to something. And I know they will not resort to banner advertising, which will all be dead soon enough as long as there is something new that will supplant it. Will Twitter be the one to develop it? Not sure, they aren’t telling us much.