Category Archives: Twitter

$300 Million of Twitter, Please

By Mark Evans | Published: December 19, 2011
Twitter may not have a vibrant business model but it sure has no problem attracting heavyweight investors. The latest person to step up in a major way is Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, who bought a $300 million stake from an early Twitter investor as part a strategy “to invest in promising, high-growth [...]
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So How is Twitter Making Money?

By Mark Evans | Published: December 14, 2011
Curious about how Twitter makes money? Henry Blodget did an interview recently at the Insight conference with Adam Bain, Twitter’s chief revenue officer, which I suppose is the guy responsible for helping turn Twitter into a business big enough to support its sky-high valuation and growing workforce (800 and counting!) Tweet
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Twitter Ad Revenue to Triple by 2013

By Mark Evans | Published: September 29, 2011
Is advertising going to help Twitter create a business? Well, it will help, although you do have to wonder whether Twitter can generate enough revenue to justify its sky-high valuation. eMarketer suggests Twitter’s ad revenue to hit $339.5 million by 2013 from $139.5 million this year. Tweet
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What Does 100M Active Users Mean for Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: September 9, 2011
So Twitter has 100 million active users. Big number but what does it mean? It means there is a huge community of people who use Twitter because it has some kind of value. It means while Twitter still hasn’t gone mainstream, it’s pretty darn popular, and not just in North America. It means another micro-blogging [...]
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Cool Info-graphic of Twitter’s Growth

By Mark Evans | Published: July 17, 2011
Here’s a cool info-graph of Twitter’s growth over the past five years via Visually. Embed the above image on your site Direct Link by visually via Tweet
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App of the Day: tweetLevel

By Mark Evans | Published: July 15, 2011
Links: http://tweetlevel.edelman.com/ Description: A new measurement service from Edelman that calculates someone’s influence by be slicing, dicing and crunching their Twitter data. It lets people discover their TweetLevel “score”, and displays the number of followers, tag cloud, who influences them, who they influence, and who retweets them. TweetLevel also lets people search by topic based [...]
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