On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009, Roland Perry wrote:
Unfortunately, the number of students polling the website for news
means
it can't cope with the traffic. I don't believe they can justify
paying
more for better web hosting, just to manage this once-a-year half
hour
event.
Is Twitter making a profit or not?
The word on the street is that they have not yet "found a revenue
model". In other words,
they make no money. They seem very dot com 1.0 unconcerned with this.
That obviously cannot last.
The speculation on how to fix that tend to be either focused advertising
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_ultimate_twitter_revenue_model.php
ecommerce
http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/2009/6/22/A-real-Twitter-revenue-model---gasp-_731.aspx
or Google type data mining models (you can detect trends very
quickly on twitter). These can obviously be combined; who knows if
they would be sufficient.
This discussion about (ab)using a publicly available message system
which
isn't currently being charged for would makes me worried^Wamused as
hell.
I don't think it violates the terms of use. But, yes, as I said
before, this is
a service that goes down. I would not rely on it as the only way to
communicate.
(Not that I can't see possible ways of making money off twitter -
especially
if you offer reliable message dissemination services to companies
for a fee,
but AFAIK they aren't doing this at the moment.)
No. I haven't even heard this mentioned as a possible revenue model.
Good idea, though.
Regards
Marshall
Adrian
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
CEO / AmericaFree.TV