Comments on: Twitter is a Cash Cow in the Making

By: muri

muri — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:47:21 +0000

I love twitter,and pretty love the idea of monetization after famous,my suggestion is I think twitter has to away from the advertisig hype like ppc or adsense look like,rather then advertising model of PPC I more aggree that twetter give such a Viral Marketing access model in which can make the user keep looking user keep the experinced of having “polite ads.inside there warm coated twitter user account

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:29:45 +0000

There are two ways to market and earn from a web site. The traditional way is to put all the earning tools into place, so the users experience popups, adsense and afiliate ads etc, and then there is the Twitter way, where the pages are completely devoid of anything that will slow them down or clutter them - for now... At some point where many thousands (or even millions) of users cannot live without their Twitter, it's possible for them to change the rules, once they already have a solid captive user base. Tony's last blog post..Shopping With Debbie

By: SmartBlogs On SocialMedia » Blog Archive » If Twitter should pass

SmartBlogs On SocialMedia » Blog Archive » If Twitter should pass — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:17:23 +0000

[...] now, we seem to be in decent shape. There have been many great ideas on how Twitter can generate revenue and the company continues to raise cash despite a harsh [...]

By: St Louis Web Design

St Louis Web Design — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:20:41 +0000

couldn't agree more! St Louis Web Design's last blog post..Why Your Website Doesn't Work

By: Supermance

Supermance — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:34:37 +0000

microblogging is getting famous nowdays,,, Supermance's last blog post..Buying Homes With Resale Value

By: jason

jason — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:36:29 +0000

That is great that they are making it happen, why cant I do that?Hmmmmm

By: Jerry - current account

Jerry - current account — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:50:36 +0000

It used to be that Lycos, Yahoo! and Altavista all had pages laden with ads, and then there was the newcomer “google” with its plain and speedy search. Everyone said “how will they make money?”. You see, they found ways

By: fasblog

fasblog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:05:10 +0000

Twitter does have alot of potential to be monetized but Twitter is not earning any money at the moment simply because they have not bothered to monetize. A free service, great going

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By: David Risley

David Risley — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:58:29 +0000

There are multiple ways Twitter could make money. Increased API limits being one of them. I can see some kind of “Twitter Pro” account or something with some perks. Several high-use users would probably go for it. Me being one of them.

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By: Viral marketing « idaconcpts

Viral marketing « idaconcpts — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:52:52 +0000

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By: David McInnis

David McInnis — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:42:25 +0000

I am not opposed to the idea of Twitter charging for API access on a CPM query basis. Access can be granted to applications with less than 10k or 25k queries per month before having to select a CPM plan. I would pay.

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:47:23 +0000

I’m sure they’re still developing db2, SAP, MSSQL….

Yes, they can quite easily create their own version. Especially as sharepoint would happily accommodate these kinda features along with integration with Office Communicator.
I never said that they couldn’t, but it would still be worth a try to offer it as an inhouse solution themselves. Mix that with the large public following of twitter and you have a great PR tool or version announcement method. They could license their technology to the likes of solarwinds to provide a way of alert messaging without using smtp into a system that is ripe for a good bit of analytics.

If they can offer it at the right pricepoint I don’t see why they can’t carve out their own piece of the pie. Hell, they could go to MS themselves and offer to license their technology.

I’m just keep to see ways of making money for the likes of Twitter and Friendfeed without resorting to advertising.

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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:45:55 +0000

[...] -Oh and yes, I must mention Twitter. Recently it got $20 million and it is said its total valuation is $250 million, now they just need to monetize all this. Take a look at a great post by Joe Hall here about how “Twitter is a Cash Cow in the Making” [...]

By: Don Draper

Don Draper — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:17:53 +0000

@alphaxion - Those companies haven't been db vendors in 10 years. They are application vendors. They all have architectures that would allow them to create a twitter type service in short order. They already have collaboration suites in place. And it would be more secure, have group policies, etc. Twitter wouldn't stand a chance. Don Draper's last blog post..Bad News for Twitter

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:25:41 +0000

@don where am I saying they need to compete with the DB makers? I see twitter as a potentially useful communications tool within a company. Bearing in mind twitter will need to run on an SQL/SQL like DB anyway I fail to see how it is in competition with that specific product. I can see it being a complimentary (as in will run along side of) system to already established intranets and other functions. It's API means it can be plugged into from and by many things. alphaxion's last blog post..bumper update!

By: Joe Hall

Joe Hall — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:50:36 +0000

@Sean Thanks for the heads up about the origin of the original concept. That is a neat article. I think that analytics are an untouched area of interest with Twitter. Looking forward to the book!

By: Don Draper

Don Draper — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:41:32 +0000

@alphaxion – So the future for twitter is to compete with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and SAP? The most that merry band of 20 somethings could hope to accomplish in that is to show the opportunity to the enterprise software vendors and then promptly get crushed. There is absolutely no way enterprises are going to spend money on a startup without revenue. They’d be nothing but a new software company trying to sell into a very tough market. The IBM rep would just insert a powerpoint slide of the fail whale and not even have to say anything. The era of small startups being able to sell anything into large enterprises ended back in 2000.

And while we may think twitter is all that, in the world of Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and SAP their supposed $250M valuation isn’t even what they spend on lunch in a quarter.

@Joe Lazarus – “One possible risk is that a failed revenue attempt could lower their acquisition price, not to say they shouldn’t try.”

Is this how out of touch with reality the VC funded startup world has gotten? Companies should fear revenue attempts because failure might hurt their acquisition chances? Everyone criticizes the excesses of the sub-prime mortgage mess, but that doesn’t hold a candle to what has been going on in the VC world.

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Twitter, the Cash Cow | HotelTravelCheck.com Blog — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:21:29 +0000

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By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:19:49 +0000

As I’ve said, there are many situations where you can’t use the public twitter network for specific data, which is where an inhouse version with federated users (users that do have their tweets in the public) can bridge the gap between taking advantage of the userbase *feature* while still keeping critical data private.

And by private I mean not on twitters database servers not “protected updates” mode.

And don’t ever forget, the userbase is NOT the product, the code people use to communicate with each other IS. Users a feature of the product and a selling point.

Also RE: aquisition price, that should only be a concern if your ultimate aim isn’t to create a company but to incubate someone elses purchase.

And with regards costing money, well the simple equation is that to make money, you have to spend it.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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By: Mihai Secasiu

Mihai Secasiu — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:52:12 +0000

@alphaxion when you say hosted solutions or selling the code it seems to me like you're selling the technology not the use base . Businesses would not need a hosted solution or the code to gain access to twitter's user base, they already have that for free. Also selling the product doesn't mean they just put a "buy" link on their site, they have to invest more money into marketing, sales and tech support as @joe lazarus says a failed attempt will not only lower their acquisition price but will also cost them money real money Mihai Secasiu's last blog post..Webmin Bulk Add Ip Addresses