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Show Me The Data, Twitter!
According to ReadWriteWeb, Twitter has saved all of our updates, which means it’s sitting on a mountain of 140-character (or less) messages that have different degrees of value. The problem is getting access to your data is far from user-friendly, although Twitter contends you can find them by doing a search. What I’d like (and [...]
Twitter Quote of the Day
“We wanted to show people that we’re here to stay and here we are making money.” - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone at the 140: Twitter Conference in Los Angeles. That said, Stone also proclaimed Twitter does not plan to put ads on the service this year, which could lead one to believe ads could be [...]
Twitter Moves Closer to Advertising
For Twitter, advertising is the proverbial bull in the china shop. For a company desperately seeking a business model, advertising is a no-brainer but, to date, Twitter has refrained from going for it. Now, it appears Twitter is moving closer to embracing advertising with the launch of a new terms of service that specifically mentions [...]
Twitter: Show Me the Revenue (Stream)!
As TechCrunch negotiates with Twitter about its decision to publish internal Twitter documents, details have emerged about Twitter’s financial forecasts. According to TechCrunch, Twitter expects revenue of $400,000 in Q3, $4-million in Q4 and a $140-million run-rate by the end of 2010. Twitter also expects to have 25 million users by end of 2009 – [...]
A Revenue Source for Twitter?
In checking out Twitter’s new follower/following management tools earlier this week, I also noticed a small box featuring definitions for Twitter-related words. At first, they looked like part of the service but, upon closer inspection, some of them are sponsored. Here’s a couple of examples: So, it appears Twitter is playing around the idea of [...]
Twitter to Finally Embrace Advertising