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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Five Things Twitter Should Do with $35M
With Twitter sitting on another $35-million of venture capital, the question now is what does the company do with all its dough? It’s a fascinating topic given Twitter only has 20 employees so it’s cash burn has to be less than $5-million/year. If Biz Stone and Evan Williams are looking for ideas on how to [...]
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Please, Take Our Money!
So, here’s the deal (literally and figuratively): Twitter wasn’t seeking any more financing because it still has money in the bank from its last financing – no surprise given it raised $15-million and only has 20 employees. Nevertheless, Twitter has happily taken $35-million from Benchmark and IVP because Benchmark and IVP really wanted to invest [...]
Twitter’s Magical Media Tour
Over the past couple of weeks, it has been interesting to see media coverage of interviews done with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and Biz Stone. As someone who spent a lot of time as a reporter, I’m curious from a media relations point of view why both executives are suddenly so engaged and active with [...]
Twitter Ain’t Mainstream Yet But…
Despite the excitement about Twitter, the reality is Twitter and microblogging are far from being mainstream services. But according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 11% of online U.S. adults said they “used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates [...]
A Twitter “T”
If you’ve written something on Twitter that you’re particularly proud of, you can now have it printed on a shirt using a new service called TwiToShirt. To honest, I’m sure why anyone would be compelled to have a Tweet put on a T-shirt but there are probably lots of people out who think this is [...]
The Next T-Commerce Platform