Comments on: BoomTown Decodes the Twitter-Is-Really-Serious-Folks-About-Not-Making-$$ Memo

By: New Comm Biz » Twitter: the last bastion of Web 2.0 Innovation

New Comm Biz » Twitter: the last bastion of Web 2.0 Innovation — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:44:34 +0000

[...] now Twitter doesn’t have a business model. In fact they are quick to dispell rumors that they are even working on one. Right now it’s all about what’s possible. And NOTHING get’s innovators going [...]

By: Twitter Business Plan Count-Up: Day 1! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:08:50 +0000

[...] fact, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said about a month ago in a blog post that “we hope to begin iterating on revenue products this [...]

By: Weekend Update, 02.15.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:25 +0000

[...] learned this week: One company’s recession may be another company’s bubble. As such, Twitter announced a $250 million-dollar valuation and a $35 million round of funding this week, prompting [...]

By: There’s No Biz Like No Biz at Twitter! (And Will Google Swoop In Before It All Comes Crashing Down?) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:49:50 +0000

[...] That would be nice, because right now there’s no Biz like no biz. [...]

By: Buisness Models Are Overrated! Twitter Raises Another $35 Million | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:35:23 +0000

[...] who’s ever read anything about Twitter knows that the company still has no revenue and/or business model — I just mentioned it one paragraph ago! So no need to go into that here. But for the record, [...]

By: Tyler Willis

Tyler Willis — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:27:52 +0000

I understand your frustration, having looked for a business model for so long from Twitter. But, the way they are going about this is actually incredibly smart. They get it out into the community to minimize the ill-will of users who don’t realize their intentions of creating a business (there’s always a bunch of them), to get great feedback from the community (which I’d argue will prove invaluable to guiding them), and to keep the conversation from turning ugly. It’s not “those guys who don’t care about monetization and are going to burnout” — it’s “those guys who built a cool service and are now carefully turning their eye on the money side.” On that last point, compare and contrast Facebook/Twitter press mentions recently to see it work the other way for FB.

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 11, 2009

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 11, 2009 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:14:16 +0000

[...] BoomTown Decodes the Twitter-Is-Really-Serious-Folks-About-Not-Making-$$ Memo, AllThingsD by Kara Swisher [...]

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:22:20 +0000

Free idea:

“Going forward Twitter messages will be limited to 135 characters, not 140. Rest reserved for product placement. IBM.”

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:10:31 +0000

Common sense dictates that twitter will monetize corporate accounts via a clear segmentation of new functionality for their dollar versus charging them for what has been free.

Logical buckets include: brand verification, follower tracking, engagement analytics and support for micro-formats to add more structure to what can be embedded in a tweet (product listing link, coupon, contest, etc.).

If interested, I blogged on the topic in:

Twitter-nomics: Envisioning Structured Tweets
http://thenetworkgarden.com/we.....omics.html

Check it out.

Mark

By: olivier clerc

olivier clerc — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:48:14 +0000

roland: “funny”?
I say “well done Kara” or “how to get no better PR about your earliest investment”
How many shares do you have already Kara?
Reporting those echoes drag my attention, but then what?
Inviting VCs to keep some coins for the today’s hottest and the most seriously disruptive “funny” media, before crisis freezes all wallets at the end of the winter.
Just watch the unbeatable traffic progression content and audience generated of Twitter,
it disserves at least a serious report and investigation toward the most simple and advanced right on time media.
This little but Simple webapp influences the Media world today and will de doing even more.
When i just finished to read painfully the characters above, it becomes a question of journalism’s ethic.
About Twitter, Looking forward to read your best lines then, or at least some wise opinions or critics full of insights, that your privileged WSJ profession and reputation allows you.

By: peHUB » peHUB First Read

peHUB » peHUB First Read — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:44:43 +0000

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:46:38 +0000

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By: roland legrand

roland legrand — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:18:50 +0000

Funny and so right. But I really do appreciate the Twitter service. It is so weird that a service which can be so useful (I use it as a kind of reading club, a place to get ideas and news, to meet people) has such problems to find a revenue model.