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Twitter has been under a lot of pressure lately in order to come up with a business model, specially due to the worsening economy. But now the company has decided to hire a Product Manager, whose job would be to focus on revenue generation and play a pivotal role in defining the formulation of Twitter’s business model. According to a job posting on Jobscore, the job responsibilities for the person are:

• Define products and feature sets of commercial-oriented Twitter applications
• Manage the prioritization and development of new products and features
• Work closely with engineering to develop product functionality
• Work closely with customer support to solve issues and maximize user satisfaction
• Do customer research to inform product decisions
• Create detailed cost and revenue models
• Define product positioning and marketing plans
• Analyze and report product success

Google was in a some what similar situation till they tapped in Omid Kordestani to head their revenue generation efforts, rest is history.