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- nukeleearr, on 01/11/2009, -2/+33It still doesn't have a revenue model. Google or Microsoft will snatch it this year
- Blobster2005, on 01/11/2009, -2/+28True, but how many people did what I did...
Went to see what all the fuss was about and signed up for an account.
Logged in and realised its just a breakout of something that every other social network provides.
Then never used it again! - XeN0cidE, on 01/11/2009, -3/+25***** Myspace
- hbyrne, on 01/10/2009, -0/+18Pretty amazing - so compelling, so unreliable.
- rolf, on 01/11/2009, -0/+14You ever see those people in the supermarket, calling whoever to discuss their every little purchase and whether to get the 1% or skim milk? Twitter seems to be the internet version of that.
- nixfu, on 01/11/2009, -1/+15
Visits: 4.5 MILLION
Earnings: $0.00 - boffert, on 01/11/2009, -0/+12But still, where's the business plan?
There's only so long you can sustain that kind of growth with no obvious revenue source. It's not 1998 any more. :-) - awesometastic1, on 01/11/2009, -0/+9wait wait wait. I have a site that got 700,000 unique visitors in December. This can't be right at all. If Twitter seriously only got 4.5 million unique users in december than why isn't my site all over the news ;-). My site has grown 500 times the size it was two years ago. Seriously, my site doesn't even make enough to take me away from working and 99.9% of people out there have never heard of my it.
I think these totals must be inaccurate or i need to go to business school to learn to properly create a revenue model for the number of visitors i'm getting.... ;-)
*note: purposely not mentioning my site name to not seem spammy, but if anyone's interested so as to verify my claims here send me a shout. - phorofor, on 01/11/2009, -0/+9Going from 1 to 752 people isn't all that impressive.
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+8unbelievable.....
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -2/+9Phase 1: Collect 4.43 million unique visitors in December
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit! - Guspaz, on 01/11/2009, -0/+7Where does that $1 million bandwidth figure come from? Google gets most of their bandwidth for free via transit-free peering. Google's fibre network also means that they can transport their traffic to public/private peering points if available. When they bought out YouTube, the cost of bandwidth for running the service plummeted dramatically to nearly zero.
For example, Google connects to TorIX, the Toronto Internet Exchange. All traffic to Google services like YouTube go through this peering point and costs them essentially nothing (beyond the costs of hooking up to TorIX and maintaining their infrastructure).
GMail also has ads that, if not enough to turn a profit, at least defrays the costs. Still, I'd suspect that GMail is profitable, substantially so.
Remember, Google is *NOT* a search company. Google is an advertising company. They make the vast majority of their profit through advertising. Everything else (like search) is just a way to generate traffic for their ads. - biofreak12, on 01/11/2009, -0/+7Twitter is useless, why people still use it? :( Who wants to follow me, and read my stupid updates, I feel like talking to myself.
I guess, I am missing something, please I need explanation. - studdenfadden, on 01/11/2009, -7/+13Twitter sucks!
- jtronftw, on 01/11/2009, -0/+6Yeah, the only reason why twitter still exists is because a handful of guys like Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte use it, thus drawing in all the fans who only use it to see what they're up to.
- Stinkylicious, on 01/11/2009, -0/+6I'll do you one better. I've never been there.
The end. - AlpineStars777, on 01/11/2009, -0/+6Mashable is sucking at the teat of Twitter. You'll find no less than half a dozen mentions of Twitter on their landing page-- daily.
- btdown, on 01/11/2009, -2/+6I dont get the whole twitter thing...They basically took a text message, gave it a hip new web 2.0 name and got a bunch of tweens to use it...Whats the big deal?
- CitizenGeek2006, on 01/11/2009, -0/+4I don't really get the appeal of Twitter, to be honest. It seems restrictive, pointless and unnecessary.
- geerlingguy, on 01/11/2009, -0/+4Agreed. I'm still wondering when ads appear, or something happens so they can make money. They don't even have a donate button on their site!
- FredFredrickson, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3Agreed. I'll take a simple RSS feed over Twitter any day.
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -1/+4What's their business model again? To see how quickly they can pay for bandwidth with 0 return? Seems to be working.
- ptm1, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3i am shocked to see such a worthless concept gain so much popularity.
but i guess it has taught me something. - FredFredrickson, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3You don't need an explanation, you are completely right. Twitter is useless, redundant, and unreliable, and should be gotten rid of.
- FredFredrickson, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3Yeah, here's what I learned: a sucker is born every minute, and they have an affinity for stupid technology like Twitter.
- jonnypockets, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3Analytics just confuse some people.
- socivitus, on 01/10/2009, -0/+3Agreed, every stats service is unreliable and those numbers are probably way off, but there's no doubt Twitter has grown over the past year. Just the attention it's gotten over the past year has grown at least 10,000% percent from 2007.
- trispear, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3The million dollar figure comes from here although I read it on wikipedia first:
http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/25/y ... - jakdracula, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3But... why? I signed up for Twitter a long time ago (in Internet years - 8 months ago), used it a few times and thought "meh". Lately I've been getting emails that people are starting to follow me on Twitter. I hadn't posted there in over 6 months. What's the deal, yo!?
- inactive, on 01/11/2009, -1/+4Did a quick search and I am probably wrong on this project.
- amous, on 01/11/2009, -1/+4without business model!
- stockjones, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2Watch out before you break the ruby again.
- FredFredrickson, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2How disappointing. Twitter is such a piece of garbage, I don't understand why people use it. What was wrong with just using RSS?
- darkmotion, on 01/11/2009, -3/+5Remove /ijustine and the internet will be a better place.
- p51d007, on 01/11/2009, -2/+4Buried........if 100 people were on twitter last year, and 1000 are on it this year, the stats can say they had a HUGE increase.
- tmalloy, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2It's not the same as just finding the multiple. A growth from 1 million to 2 million is a 100% growth, for example. A growth from 0.5 million to 4.5 million would be 800%, and I guess it was a little less than that.
- josejimenez, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2Agreed. 1999 called and wants its business model back. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, et. al., are using the business model from the dot-bomb era, get eyeballs and build network traffic first, worry about being profitable later. And, we all remember how the Web 1.0 era ended now, don't we?
- awesometastic1, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2but only about 6-ish times as much. That's a single digit figure. My site actually gets about 4 million views a month on average, and has gotten as much as 6 million page views before in a month. The rub is that it earns gross only about $1000 a month.
I just think those numbers have to be off or i should stop making fun of marketing majors and start boning up on the subject (cs masters here ;-) - mrbabbler, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2Am I missing something, because 4.5 million visitors is a lot more than 700k.
- peterinjapan, on 01/11/2009, -1/+3I'm the owner of J-List, and I joined three months ago. Suddenly I'm ranked as the #4 Twitter user in Japan -- that was the fastest return on doing something I have ever seen. Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/jlist if you want various blatherings from a guy who lives in Japan.
- PxCxG, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2Still no profits, so who cares...
- ogletree, on 01/11/2009, -1/+3Oh twitter has grown that much I don't doubt that at all. What they don't say is that the growth came from spammers. I set up a twitter account and I never use it. I get emails everyday telling me people are following me. In the Online marketing world people are always talking about the value of twitter accounts with lots of followers. Very few twitter accounts are real people.
- CarzorStelatis, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2I'm wondering how many of those were automated downtime checking tools :P
- JYoungest1, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2Its like a hammer, it works only if you know how to use it. Swinging it once with nothing to hit means your doing it wrong.
- dfraser, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that the option to delete your Twitter account was disabled for a significant percentage of 2008.
- FredFredrickson, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2Bots. Join MySpace and the same thing will happen.
- Astheria, on 01/11/2009, -1/+3unique visitors != unique users
- cooljmy10, on 01/12/2009, -0/+1actually, there's a graph with numbers and lines and data :P
- AlanCayce, on 01/12/2009, -0/+1AHH! There's ads everywhere! How much does it cost to run that site?
- Scaryclouds, on 01/12/2009, -1/+2I'm pretty sure your are just wrong.
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