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Twitter had revenue of $50M last year, and is projected to run $150M this year and $250M next[1] In the past 12 months Twitter has built out an entire north american sales force lead by former FIM exec Adam Bain, who is v good at what he does. So those numbers are before any international expansion, and do not include API licensing (via Gnip) It is very disingenuous and flat out wrong to write Twitter off as having n…
I hope you weren't serious here.
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I'm reminded of Alister Croll's article that "Twitter is a protocol, not a site" http://www.bitcurrent.com/twitters-not-a-site-its-a-protocol... There is no reason why Tweetdeck couldn't co-exist with Twitter's main clients. Twitter power users are the ones who tweet the most and innovate the most. Think of RT, # tags, pictures. Having a bleeding edge product keeps the power users happy without alienating the existin…
Problem is, Twitter don't see twitter as a protocol.
It seems that the product guys won the argument over the platform guys.
The problem now is that a large part of the reason why the product was successful is because of the platform and the dev ecosystem
The day Twitter reports MAKING $50 million dollars rather than SPENDING $50 million dollars will cause celebration on the streets filled with champagne and delight...until then, they're just a giant spam channel with a lot of VC
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-24/twitter-s-ad-rev...
Twitter is awesome and all but should focus on some sort of revenue to pay back investors...
The day Twitter reports MAKING $50 million dollars rather than SPENDING $50 million dollars will cause celebration on the streets filled with champagne and delight...until then, they're just a giant spam channel with a lot of VC
"Twitter Inc. will probably more than triple its advertising revenue to $150 million this year as more companies use it to spread marketing messages, according to Internet researcher EMarketer Inc." http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-24/twitter-s-ad-rev...