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Will Businesses Pay for Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 26, 2009
Last week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone disclosed that Twitter plans to launch a “commercial layer” later this year in which it will provide premium services to companies that will include statistics and analytics. On the surface, this seems like a good idea given there’s growing demand among business for insight and information about social media [...]
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Here’s How Twitter is Going to Make Money…Really!

By Mark Evans | Published: June 23, 2009
Are you tired yet about how Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging service, is going to make money? Well, the wait may soon be over. According to co-founder Biz Stone, Twitter is going to have corporate customers such as Dell, Whole Foods and Starbucks pay it to provide valued-added services such as account verification, analytics and multiple [...]
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How Many Users Does Twitter Really Have?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 27, 2009
I noticed some chatter about how many people are using Twitter after the Wall St. Journal published a story suggesting Twitter now has 32.1 million, compared with 1.6 million a year ago. According to Compete.com, Twitter had 19.4 million unique users in the U.S. in April. This means Twitter has 13 million users in other [...]
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Twitter to Sell Tools, Not Advertising

By Mark Evans | Published: May 18, 2009
In the latest episode of “As the Twitter Revenue Model Turns”, CEO Biz Stone suggests Twitter will make revenue from selling tools to business users, while continuing to reject the idea of selling advertising. In an interview with Reuters, Stone said Twitter has no ability to sell ads because: “There are no people at Twitter [...]
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