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Wonder how much of an influence this will have on Twitter's self-censorship.
[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cables...
Smart investment. Twitter has really changed news and personal broadcasting in ways many of us don't appreciate. And Twitter has some of the smartest people dispersing pearls of wisdom and knowledge like nowhere else. Again, Twitter is a smart investment - in more ways than just money.
You should check out the library.
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> "If Twitter is making money..." Is it? Doesn't seem very likely at all that it is.
I've always wondered. On the one side you get the naysayers who don't think Twitter is significantly monetizable at all. On the other side you've got the people who think the Firehose is the greatest thing since sliced bread and is pretty much a golden ticket. I don't think I get Twitter - I've never found the service to be at all useful, and I find the 140-char limit quaint and out of touch with how users want to us…
I have no idea what value the Twitter data feed has, but the value proposition of the service is compelling: reach interested people with minimal effort, build follower relationships to retain them.
My butcher, for instance, periodically twerps when he's got some oddball piece of beef to offload.
I used Twitter to enroll multiple cryptography classes. I had plans to use Facebook and email as well, but the response I got from a couple twerps filled my classes.
ChiSec, our local meetup for infosec people in Chicago, is scheduled and promoted entirely through Twitter. I use Crowdbooster's scheduled-twerp feature to post consistent reminders. It's miraculously effective.
This "people only use it to track celebrities" thing is a load of crap. Just as many celebs brag about their Facebook likes, but nobody says people go to Facebook for the celebs. The fact is that Twitter has a different, lower-drag interaction model than Facebook (which requires me to decide whether someone I want to talk to gets to see my kid's pictures). It's better optimized to broadcasting than Facebook is.
Smart investment. Twitter has really changed news and personal broadcasting in ways many of us don't appreciate. And Twitter has some of the smartest people dispersing pearls of wisdom and knowledge like nowhere else. Again, Twitter is a smart investment - in more ways than just money.
"And Twitter has some of the smartest people dispersing pearls of wisdom and knowledge like nowhere else" You should check out the library.
Then you'll start to get a glimpse of how potent twitter can be.
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"And Twitter has some of the smartest people dispersing pearls of wisdom and knowledge like nowhere else" You should check out the library.
Twitter is easy to mock, but I suggest you compile a list of your favorite thought leaders on twitter, then have the list emailed to you via a service like tweetymail. Then you'll start to get a glimpse of how potent twitter can be.
How much of Twitter does that get him?
Using the $8 Billion valuation, around 3.75% of Twitter.
3.75% doesn't sound so bad, even if you assume bad intent. 300M had me thinking it had to be a really significant minority share, like 40%... not keeping up with the times, I guess.