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- Echuu, on 11/14/2009, -2/+48From a user perspective the API and clients is brilliant, but from a business perspective they shot themselves in the foot.
- ChromaVita, on 11/15/2009, -0/+26I can't tell you how many copies of Dragon Age I own now!
- Junkyarddawg, on 11/15/2009, -6/+22Why should I care. Why should anyone care. Buried.
- MacBookForMe, on 11/14/2009, -2/+17Dugg for that Twitter streaming and #hashing
- niradg, on 11/15/2009, -3/+18if they put ads into the stream, twitter is dead.
- fireashes, on 11/15/2009, -0/+14They should put those dragon adds on the background just like digg. Learn something from Kevin.
- UnterDenLinden, on 11/15/2009, -1/+12They would be bankrupt in a week with that plan.
- indraroop, on 11/15/2009, -1/+10A similar thing happened 10 years ago when email was invented - it was called "spam"
- dillonflynn, on 11/15/2009, -1/+9And when I go onto Twitter from the homepage, I immediately start clicking banner ads and buying products as a result of those banner ads.
Just like I do here on Digg. Doesn't everybody do that? - chockster, on 11/15/2009, -0/+7yawn
- somepuertorican, on 11/16/2009, -0/+7Making a cup of coffee
-this tweet is sponsored by Folgers - monkeyrun, on 11/15/2009, -0/+7"value of the micro blogging service and arrived at $526 million to $674 million -- half what Twitter is generally believed to be worth."
So people think Twitter worth more than a billion? I don't think they even worth a quarter of that.
Many companies with real factories, real estates, real products and real profits worth less than that. - krosack, on 11/15/2009, -0/+6And digg still isn't.
But maybe those dragon ads will make a difference... - Shitokki, on 11/15/2009, -3/+9So many people are using 3rd party apps and the fact that twitter is tied into so many other sites now that a new way of commerce will develop itself naturally.....or they will sink. I'm betting that they got this covered though or are working on it.
- waydee, on 11/15/2009, -2/+8What's twitter?
- swantamer, on 11/16/2009, -0/+6Here's the odd thing: some idiots think twitter is worth anything. It is a ***** little company that provides a platform for narcissists and ***** eating corporate shills. No one with anything relevant to say will ever say it on twitter. In a few years it will have vanished and been replaced, probably by some even worse platform for trivila people and companies to prattle on endlessly with their trivial thoughts.
- MAGZine, on 11/15/2009, -2/+8(that was the joke)
- harvinator24, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4They could work with the third party clients on advertising. Most likely companies like twitterific which already have an add placed in their free applications. Maybe they will just have to put adds in the stream.
- Jandels, on 11/16/2009, -0/+4Would Twitter have achieved such a massive uptake without the API and all the 3rd party apps?
- euphoriadj, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4spam has been around since black September in the early 90's and email was invented in the 60's, so try some shamwow.
- Baryn, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3All Twitter has to do is send its massive userbase a tweet from a sponsor once a week. Bam, problem solved.
I'm sure digg users will vote me down for such a heinous suggestion. Alright, make one of your own. - kalvinb, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3The problem is that Twitter is a trivial product to implement. It was created in all of 4 months. Now that all the development has been done, reimplementing it is even more trivial.
So if Twitter decides to inject ads or other things that annoy people then
- people will write clients to block ads
- people will stop using twitter
- people will make a twitter competitor and gain marketshare
Based on usage twitter is worth gobs of money. But the ability to actually monitize that traffic is next to nothing.
The biggest hurdle for ads through tweets is that it is currently illegal to send unsolicited ads through SMS. It's the same as unsolicited faxes. They cost people money. It would open advertisers up to massive lawsuits - MAGZine, on 11/15/2009, -4/+7HOW TO GENERATE MONEY:
At a random time every minute, have each twitter account tweet out an advertisement for a various company. Then charge on a per-ad basis for an anti-spam account.
Problem solved. A check will do fine.
And if you want more money, offer companies (for a small additional fee) the chance to reset a user's avatar (who has >50,000 follower) to the company logo/product image. - royalwcheese, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2Why not start charging all the multimedia companies using Twitter to their advantage (TV, music, movies, etc.)? Paranormal Activity owes them a huge ***** check.
- diggbigwig, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2Are you saying some tweets aren't useless? Prove it.
- tragedyfish, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2I for one can't wait to see the upcoming Best Buy holiday pageant.
- bbscience, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2Damn... and I was here reading these comments thinking I could find out what this Twitter thing is
- barfooz, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2I wouldn't bet on that.
- ToastPop, on 11/15/2009, -1/+3Do you know how many changes have been made to Facebook where people have declared it to be "dead"? Not everyone has as deep a hatred for ads as Digg users. The people who are hooked on Twitter won't leave because of an occasional ad.
- krosack, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Wow this guy has a real stick up his ass about twitter.
- applK, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1this is bad news for clients.
Twitter may gradually withdraw API support, in order to bring people to the home site...and their ads - bigthree, on 11/15/2009, -4/+5i never go to tweeter - all desktop or other web apps to manage my accounts. Being so open helped them grow but could hurt them in the long wrong being a huge money maker
- zeebo, on 11/15/2009, -1/+2This doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. As a micro-blogging service, they should solve their problem with micro-advertising. Short text ads embedded into the content clearly marked as such embedded into the feeds at irregular intervals that could be distributed the same as the rest of their content.
- thisthatwhat, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1The funny thing is that the tweet clients have ads and have more of a potential of making money off twitter than twitter themselves.
It's going to be tough to make money. Charge any sort of money and you have herds of people dropping out and how much can you charge commercially to be fair? - lazyrussian, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I'd be happy if Twitter built a client and gave it out for free or for a nominal fee.
- dagamer34, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1It's probably going to be less about making money directly from the consumer and more about allowing companies to data mine the live stream to see how their products are doing. At a result, we'll probably see Twitter close off a few loopholes that currently allow 3rd parties to do any data mining from tweets.
- applK, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1well then they may offer their own free client, with (text) adds in the client...not the stream
OR
make it so u have to use m.twitter rather than a client
Then theres people using twitter without mobile browsers. Perhaps tweets received by sms would be preceded by text ads - Baryn, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1... that's the first time my sarcasm detector has failed <_<
- MacBookForMe, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1I actually loved it!
- sgxyay, on 11/16/2009, -1/+2Huh? Just un follow that person....
- Baryn, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Every minute? Are you serious?
I made a similar suggestion, but pegged it at every WEEK.
Hell, every day would be acceptable, but not every minute. - succubuskiller, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1That's why the movie Idiocracy seems like a plausible reality haha. We went from traditional snail mail, to email, to tweets. Every time dumbing down the communication. I do see Twitter as a decent tool for corporations or celebrities who want to keep in touch with a lot of people, but for most people FaceBook status pretty much has the same use.
- MAGZine, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1(that was the joke)
- MWeather, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Nope, but it did. Now it can stop.
- MWeather, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1The first spam email was sent on May 3rd 1978. Email first appeared on ARPANET in 1971.
- merlin99, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I don't think Twitter was ever designed to be some big money making thing. So it's not surprising that it's 'losing out' now.
- blasteker, on 11/16/2009, -0/+0I don't know why people are bashing twitter here and saying it's not worth *****. Their data and trends are extremely valuable to marketers.
- TheAttacks, on 11/16/2009, -1/+1It's just another way to share information online, really, that's it. You give it far more credit than it's worth.
- Ribbys, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1Problem I have with Twitter is the useless spam that comes from any decent topics. Eg. last night #whathaterssay was trending and was really funny, and then spam bots and misuse of the hash tag made it a mess.
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