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By: logic

logic — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:06:51 +0000

great article. the different ideas you mentioned for twitter surviving and thriving at scale are fascinating. however, you seem to have slipped off the deep end there with your conclusion. 160 million hard earned dollars risked by investors so that they can spread love? lol… not just thinking of the users, but being obsessed with their satisfaction is of undeniable importance to any good business. the more value they provide, the more clever and innovative they are maximizing their revenue while minimizing user annoyance, the more of a return they deserve and should expect. perhaps this is out of your area of expertise, but building a successful business is as far from “easy money” as it gets, and “greedy” implies comprising ones morals for profit. you have to be very extreme to think offering a service for free with advertising is greedy, especially when the page you write that on has 3 banner ads coming back to reality, the real reason they waited so long to deploy advertising is to not jeopardize potential scale that can be achieved from a free product, before their need to feed their employees self-sustainably becomes imminent. it’s the same as the dot com days… eyeballs vs financial solvency. of course, this makes their value highly speculative, though not to say nonexistent. their potential lies in the innovative business models as you mentioned, not because they love you nor they love entitled moochers, but because they owe it to their shareholders and employees who invested huge time, effort, and capital, and to their users who embrace whatever business model they end up choosing, in order to justly reward the services provided and the risks taken by all those involved with taking twitter from idea to IPO. anyways, thanks for the insight into the possibilities. this stuff is certainly exciting to watch

By: Ryu

Ryu — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:35:06 +0000

I think more people are making money off of Twitter than the website is making for itself.

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