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Re: Twitter: What’s The Best Business Model?

modemlooper — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:11:57 -0000

duh the model should be just like the color twits contest but for brands. follow a brands twits and get a chance to win something and then charge the fuck out of brand for letting them use it.

Re: Twitter: What’s The Best Business Model?

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Re: Twitter: What’s The Best Business Model?

Eric — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:22:22 -0000

I'm with Alan, it's going to have to be something much more subtle than in-line ads. While I think there's a small possibility that Twitter could take off in the mainstream (remember the mainstream where nobody knows what an RSS feed is and they like MySpace just fine?), in-line ads will definitely turn off a huge chunk of their existing users...and by turn off I mean make them into rabid anti-Twitter zealots.

They're seeing a ton of interesting data flow through their servers, they could start making sense of it and selling it. Of course the privacy aspects are a bit scary, but if they do a good job of handling that I think there's a lot of potential upside.

Re: Twitter: What’s The Best Business Model?

La Marguerite — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:20:42 -0000

For an answer, go back to the user, you, and why you are using Twitter.

Do I prefer and ad-free Twitter? You bet. Would I stop using if there were ads? Probably not.

Ads do seem the easy way out. And I love people who impress me with their creativity...

http://lamarguerite.wordpre...

Re: Twitter: What’s The Best Business Model?

Marina Martin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:53:25 -0000

Naturally, Twitter is going to make money by blackmailing people over the contents of their direct messages.

Re: Twitter: What’s The Best Business Model?

theschnaz — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:07:44 -0000

I think placing ads on Twitter or in Twitter's stream are obvious and not original. People are so comfortable with free (ad-supported) web services, that anytime a monetization question comes up, they say "put up some ads".

Ads on Twitter.com would be fine, ads in the stream are not. I don't want to pay to receive ads, that's crazy.

Why not let businesses buy keywords and then have those keywords link back to a site? For example, I could buy "fitness video" and whenever someone typed in "fitness video" that text would link to http://www.beYOU.tv (where I work).

This is a non-intrusive and original way to generate money for Twitter.

What do you think?

Greg