I'm surprised they didn't start something along the lines of Reddit Gold. It could have possibly helped cover some of the costs.
Twitter Is Expected to Field Bids This Week
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many news stories are there every day about a politician or a celebrity tweeting about X? Just because it isn't monetisable doesn't mean it isn't valuable to the right (media, probably) organisation.
It you can't monetise it, then how valuable it that data really? It doesn't matter how valuable your product is, if no one is willing to pay. Perhaps the gossip magazines should pool their money and buy Twitter?
Just editorial control over the line of "what's acceptable here" is a huge power to control the boundaries of debate.
That power can be used to make massive amounts of money.
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#43Why share things that are not freely available on Internet? I don't want to subscribe to read more...
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#44Still Twitter is the fastest and the least spammed medium to follow the cream of your / any technological industry: follow just a selection of very relevant influencers or firms and you are done, you have a live coverage of news and issues. Neat and passive.
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#45This is a sad outcome, but once upon a time Twitter had a choice: be the defacto messaging backbone for the Internet or compete with Facebook and be a destination website/app. They chose the latter and rewrote their TOS to effectively eliminate 3rd party development on their platform. An entire ecosystem of companies, products and tools was destroyed because Twitter couldn't imagine or articulate the value of powerin…
Twitter should be owned as a worldwide co-operative at this point, it's too useful as infrastructure to hand it over to some greedy jackasses.
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#46Kind of surprised Facebook is not interested or at least there's no news of Facebook being interested. Facebook already owns social networking, messaging and photo-sharing. Twitter would fit nicely into this portfolio as a niche for breaking news. Plus this would be an amazing opportunity to build an integrated user profile across all these platforms. Wonder what the DOJ and the anti-trust guys would think of this th…
My understanding (at least for Europe) is that since neither Twitter or FB charges 'users', there is no market which they are considered to be monopolising.
Of course they are in the advertising market, but there are not dominant there.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many news stories are there every day about a politician or a celebrity tweeting about X? Just because it isn't monetisable doesn't mean it isn't valuable to the right (media, probably) organisation.
It you can't monetise it, then how valuable it that data really? It doesn't matter how valuable your product is, if no one is willing to pay. Perhaps the gossip magazines should pool their money and buy Twitter?
Monetisation usually implies end users paying for a product. I don't think Twitter will ever get to that point. But a media company like Disney (who, remember, own ESPN) could absolutely capitalise on the value of Twitter for live sports, for example. It would be valuable to them.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
They will replace all the devs with H1b Visa holders, and then censor any tweet calling them out on their illegal business practice. * Edit removed the word "outsource"
http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Twitter+Inc&job=Software+En...
OMG it's a match made in heaven...
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It you can't monetise it, then how valuable it that data really? It doesn't matter how valuable your product is, if no one is willing to pay. Perhaps the gossip magazines should pool their money and buy Twitter?
Just editorial control over the line of "what's acceptable here" is a huge power to control the boundaries of debate. That power can be used to make massive amounts of money.
So why aren't Twitter profitable? Because Jack Dorsey is a nice guy, or not smart enough?
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#50I got put off on using twitter for so long. It was till probably 8 months ago I started using it. And was able to get over their character limit. (which was mostly my reason for not using it)