On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Twitter have a business plan, we're just not worthy enough to know all >> the details. What we know so far is that they're planning to launch a >> premium account type with a bunch of tools to aid brand and engagement >> tracking. If Twitter can maintain their popularity big business will >> pay a small fortune to be able to measure the effectiveness of the way >> they're using their accounts. > > > At the risk of really deviating from developer talk... We know this? Who's > "we" and how do we know this? > > I have a hard time seeing how analysis of Twitter alone would compete with > existing services that monitor brands in conversations across many > platforms. I started one of the first companies to do that, ten years ago, > which is quite a head start... and it is now owned by one of the biggest > brand monitoring companies on the planet. Lots of competition has come > along since then. > > Anyway, this was fun, but it's not about developing code as such, so I'll > shut up. Maybe this is a conversation for that non-platform-specific social > media developer community I was wondering about... ;-) > > Nick > "We" is anyone who have paid attention to the twitter dev list and blogs and scuttlebutt. Biz has talked about the premium accounts. Contextual advertising has been brought up several times. Search-driven monetization has also been brought up. Who's "we?" Anyone with their eyes and ears open. Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera - This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
