Re: "Twitter is not making money" I wasn't going to add to this thread being a developer group and all, but according to Twitter... (we spend more money than we make)
http://twitter.com/about#money Q: How do you make money from Twitter? A: Twitter has many appealing opportunities for generating revenue but we are holding off on implementation for now because we don't want to distract ourselves from the more important work at hand which is to create a compelling service and great user experience for millions of people around the world. While our business model is in a research phase, we spend more money than we make. - About us "Twitter is a privately funded startup..." On Jul 18, 1:29 am, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 16, 1:14 pm, Stuart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Twitter have a business plan, we're just not worthy enough to know all > > the details. What we know so far is that they're planning to launch a > > premium account type with a bunch of tools to aid brand and engagement > > tracking. > > I've got news for you ... Twitter itself is woefully behind the curve > on monitoring / marketing / analytics technologies. Third parties are > springing up daily with offerings in this area, many of them involving > cutting-edge natural language processing. Twitter could obviously > invest in these areas, but I'm not sure why they would, rather than > focusing on stability, scalability and security of the underlying > platform and messaging systems. > > Perhaps one way to "monetize" Twitter would be to implement a per- > follower charge, say, free up to 2000 followers, then a small monthly > fee up to 10,000, a larger fee up to 100,000 and so on. I haven't seen > follower count distribution data recently, but I'd say that people > with more than 2000 followers are rare and are probably using Twitter > as a "push marketing / sales" platform in some sense. Of course, I'm > at around 3500 followers at the moment, so I would be paying a monthly > fee and would need to justify it as a business expense (or block about > 1500 people, which isn't out of the question) ;-)
