Monthly Archives: March 2011

Twitter: The Emperor With No Clothes?

By Mark Evans | Published: March 11, 2011
A blog post by Om Malik about Twitter caught my attention because it talked about Twitter’s business model, or lack thereof. The article was a surprise because the focus was on how Twitter’s problem is its product-centric rathe rather than business model-centric approach. In other words, Twitter was too focused on features than having a [...]
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FilterTweeps: A Smart Way to Find Friends

By Mark Evans | Published: March 8, 2011
A common theme when talking to clients about Twitter is how to discover and find people to follow. After all, it’s one thing to have a presence on Twitter but another to make it more useful, interesting and valuable. To be honest, I haven’t unearthed many good tools to find new people to follow. Mr. [...]
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No IPO for Twitter. No S*@%t

By Mark Evans | Published: March 5, 2011
Twitter has no plans to do an IPO. Biz Stone told Reuters that Twitter has “so many other things before we even think about that”, and that “We are not even discussing it internally. It’s too far off.” Now I realize that anything Biz Stone says is considered news but, folks, let’s be serious here: [...]
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Charlie Sheens’s Twitter Explosion

By Mark Evans | Published: March 4, 2011
One word to describe Charlie Sheen’s Twitter debut: incredible. Less than a week on Twitter, more than 1.6 million followers. This ranks him among the top-150 in terms of followers.
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Why Twitter is a Huge Financial Risk

By Mark Evans | Published: March 1, 2011
Based on recent investments, Twitter is worth about $4.5-billion – the latest “valuation” come from equity purchase by JP Morgan Chase. What I want to know is how and why Twitter is worth $4.5-billion. It’s certainly not based on fundamentals because aside from 175 million users, Twitter doesn’t have any. Yeah, I know that 175 [...]
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