Comments on: How Twitter should make money (The Twitter supercomputer) http://bitporters.net/2008/05/28/how-twitter-should-make-money-the-twitter-supercomputer/ The Personal Blog of Andrew McTeer, a C# / ASP.net developer from Ottawa, Ontario Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:48:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: BPAndrew http://bitporters.net/2008/05/28/how-twitter-should-make-money-the-twitter-supercomputer/#comment-44358 BPAndrew Thu, 29 May 2008 16:00:28 +0000 http://bitporters.net/2008/05/28/how-twitter-should-make-money-the-twitter-supercomputer/#comment-44358 @Michael Jasons ideas are bang on about critical mass - revenue doesn't really matter for them right now I guess - having solid uptime is more important in the grand scheme of things. Once they've hit critical mass they can pretty much do anything with degrees of success. re: The LinkedIn's answers thing - I stopped using that site a while ago so I haven't really seen it in action - is it just like yahoos answers? or can questions be pushed out towards users/groups? Thanks for responding I knew you'd have some valuable insight on this topic. @Michael

Jasons ideas are bang on about critical mass - revenue doesn’t really matter for them right now I guess - having solid uptime is more important in the grand scheme of things. Once they’ve hit critical mass they can pretty much do anything with degrees of success.

re: The LinkedIn’s answers thing - I stopped using that site a while ago so I haven’t really seen it in action - is it just like yahoos answers? or can questions be pushed out towards users/groups?

Thanks for responding I knew you’d have some valuable insight on this topic.

]]> By: Michael Buckbee http://bitporters.net/2008/05/28/how-twitter-should-make-money-the-twitter-supercomputer/#comment-44357 Michael Buckbee Thu, 29 May 2008 15:47:34 +0000 http://bitporters.net/2008/05/28/how-twitter-should-make-money-the-twitter-supercomputer/#comment-44357 With respect to Twitter making money, they are already doing advertising on their Japanese site: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9926331-52.html You might also find Jason Calacanis's thoughts about Twitter's business model options interesting: http://www.calacanis.com/2008/01/02/the-three-business-models-that-make-twitter-a-billion-dollar-bus/ While I'm equally fascinated by Amazon MT, I think Twitter may be more akin to something like LinkedIn's Answers feature. Where there is some structure for posing and responding to questions put to your own and other social groups. It seems quite doable that this functionality could be built on top of Twitter as it stands now as a karma/whuffie type system. That being said, I am in definite agreement that doing something to capitalize on the unique human and social aspects of Twitter would likely serve them better in the long term than slapping some advertising across the site would. With respect to Twitter making money, they are already doing advertising on their Japanese site:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9926331-52.html

You might also find Jason Calacanis’s thoughts about Twitter’s business model options interesting: http://www.calacanis.com/2008/01/02/the-three-business-models-that-make-twitter-a-billion-dollar-bus/

While I’m equally fascinated by Amazon MT, I think Twitter may be more akin to something like LinkedIn’s Answers feature. Where there is some structure for posing and responding to questions put to your own and other social groups. It seems quite doable that this functionality could be built on top of Twitter as it stands now as a karma/whuffie type system.

That being said, I am in definite agreement that doing something to capitalize on the unique human and social aspects of Twitter would likely serve them better in the long term than slapping some advertising across the site would.

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