Comments on: Ideas for Twitter's Revenue Model – pt. 2

By: Tiago Bandeira

Tiago Bandeira — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:45:46 +0000

I don’t know if this topic is still open, buy I would like to proposed an idea. Why doesn’t Twitter charge companies to include a possibility of having their own characters or symbols. For instance, if I ever write McDonald’s, it would be replace by M logo and for that McDonald’s would need to pay Twitter. companies would pay per Tweet seen or simply to have this automatic replacement available. for instance: I am drinking now a Strabucks coffee “I am driking now a (pdrawing with a Strabucks cup)

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By: J.D. Peterson

J.D. Peterson — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:15:37 +0000

How can Twitter make money? some good ideas here: http://ow.ly/6WHs

By: Raghu

Raghu — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:36:51 +0000

If I were the PM of twitter, I would go for revenue generation through advertisement on auxillery services such as search, statistics reports, public messages etc.
If you make any service “premium” then there will always be someone who gives that service for free.

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By: Morten Emery

Morten Emery — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:49:10 +0000

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By: saeed

saeed — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:10:42 +0000

Agreed there is a lot of time sensitive information that goes up there…and then there is also a lot of crap!

Agreed also that 3rd party tools do a lot of what people suggested. Keep in mind those weren’t my suggestions by ideas from readers of the blog.

Facebook’s $300 million (as far as I can tell) was a projection the Zuckerberg made early in 2008. They have not released any final #s yet, but it may be lower than that.

The key questions are:

1. What is the breakout of that revenue? via advertising? via investment? via other means?

It’s really important to understand where the revenue came from, how much of it is repeatable and scalable going forward. A lot of the revenue is from the Microsoft deal. Not sure if that is repeatable or scalable.

2. How close to breakeven (forget about profit for now) is FB?

At almost 200,000,000 users (not sure how many of them are active!), surely they must be close to finding a path to breakeven? Or do they need to get to 300,000,000 users before that happens?

Yes they have a ton of money in the bank, but is there a real business there or are they simply a sink for investment dollars?

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By: Jason Brett

Jason Brett — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:47:09 +0000

Well, I started to comment on this post, but my comments ended up making an entire blog post…so you can find my complete thoughts here: http://jasonbrett.me/2009/04/twitter-revenue-model-proposals-abound-metoo/

That said, I enjoyed the post and it obviously got me in gear as well.

Essentially, I’m a fan of four primary revenue streams:
1. In-stream advertising
2. Metered updates
3. Metered API access
4. Brand and premium name protection

As you said, there are many other options, and most of them have merit. I just view these four as highest priority.

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