SAI: Mobile Twitter Could be "Worth a Billion"

“Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, user base and user disposition to lead in the mobile payments space, where, despite years of hype, no one has much of a head start,” the site said.

The report said that while Twitter is far from being a ubiquitous mobile platform, they have more penetration and usage than any other mobile service—in fact, their current user base is the same kind of early adopter group that frequented PayPal in the beginning.

“If Twitter had a P2P payments system in place today, it would become the most used mobile payments system overnight.