Comments on: A Whale of an Opportunity

By: Facebook Developer

Facebook Developer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:53:07 +0000

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By: SEO News

SEO News — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:21:58 +0000

Come on guys, twitter is very rewarding, it helps me catch up on seo news with seo consultants around the world.

By: Limo Hire

Limo Hire — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:20:33 +0000

I really like twitter and have many visitors come across my website directly from twitter, BIG UP Twitter

By: SEO London

SEO London — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:19:21 +0000

The business plan of twitter is to attract as many visitors and sell on as an advertising package.

By: manu prasad » Hail Whale

manu prasad » Hail Whale — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:14:47 +0000

[...] an article on Business Week, took examples of other microblogging services, and the second, on TechCrunchIT, wtites about how Twitter can become the single post office of the variety of services that we use [...]

By: london limo

london limo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:27:19 +0000

i have been trying to figure out the business plan of twitter and trust me I have no clue though despite their great services how long they will be able to last god bless twitter.

By: Mahesh CR

Mahesh CR — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:14:00 +0000

Exactly my point, twitter can end up being an interaction channel to a variety of cloud based services!

I have blogged about it recently.

http://maheshcr.com/blog/2008/10/22/twitter-as-command-line-to-the-clouds/

By: How Twitter Can Power the Future of Mainstream Media « Melody McCloskey

How Twitter Can Power the Future of Mainstream Media « Melody McCloskey — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:33:43 +0000

[...] path to becoming a personal and professional productivity application. TechCrunch wrote about how Twitter should become the leader in cross-platform micromessaging (Myspace + Friendfeed + Facebook, etc). There’s also always the option to focus on increasing [...]

By: Hail Whale | brants

Hail Whale | brants — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:02:31 +0000

By: Adrian Eden

Adrian Eden — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:58:01 +0000

I just opened my first Twitter account and I cannot wait to use it to it’s full potential! To date Twitter has done nothing but impress and do well and I’m excited to see how they choose to monetize their service. Think Outside The Box!

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:20:26 +0000

Yes the twitter is too smarty to post what your thinks and looks. Now the ad can show beside the micro blog.

By: Daily Consumer » Once again with Twitter’s BM

Daily Consumer » Once again with Twitter’s BM — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:21:18 +0000

[...] Update: Steve also has a nice pulpit at TechCrunchIT. [...]

By: aw

aw — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:38:57 +0000

Jesus….. Evan – just give Steve his track please.

By: MacDavid

MacDavid — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:08:03 +0000

After reading each of these comments up to now, the bottom line appears to be that Twitter has some good options in front. Will there be a more opportune time to grab even more success by the throat than now for Twitter? I say choose now, don’t wait any longer because if I hear another word about how Twitter can do such and such and such I’m gonna scream. lol

By: someone

someone — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:38:04 +0000

Steve, another gem of an essay. Well done! Your concise prose and crystal-clear logic never fail to penetrate through the “cloud” of bad Internet writing.

(Just kidding, of course. How many thousands of interminable and incoherent Twitter treatises are you going to post? You are the fail-whale of authors.)

By: Rolf Schewe

Rolf Schewe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:13:08 +0000

I don’t think these services have much choice but to become more and more open. If they don’t do it someone else will.

As far as social graphs are concerned, I would say people will use these services more if they have everything organized the way they want it.

Too much energy is expended in tweaking, organizing and troubleshooting instead of just using them. At that point people can focus on their content and not the underlying framework so much.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:49:10 +0000

Though this idea doesn’t quite find the revenue, it is definitely a necessary step for Twitter. You said it best with “Twitter can use its market muscle to stay ahead of attempts to clone it from below or above.” Twitter is going to see pressure soon enough and it needs to have more weight to stay above water.

By: daniel h

daniel h — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:40:12 +0000

This post makes some interesting comments regarding Twitter’s replacement of email as a communication method, but I think strays a bit in leaping to the “post office” analogy. And the line “Executives can manage by starting fires and watching to see who puts them out” is just crazy. That’s not a strategy or management method, that’s arson.

By: Allan

Allan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:32:46 +0000

Very substantive strategic analysis. What are the arguments, if any, for Twitter to stay closed?

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:16:49 +0000

I think more than just ads Twitter has a lot more to generate revenue from. Twitter exactly knows what it’s people like. they should be offering this data to Adwords via API’s and so that Adwords (or anyone who can pay a good amount) can serve highly relevant ads.