Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Twitter's new old revenue model

As reported by Reuters, Twitter's COO Dick Costolo announced newly-launched system "would provide a key pillar in Twitter's plans to turn its popular service into a significant money-making operation that can justify its rich valuation" (see link at the bottom).

Now, guess what is the central part of this new amazing revenue model... Google's old revenue model precisely - selling words. Apparently people using search on Twitter should already be able to see sponsored links from a select group of pilot ad partners. Am I missing something here or what happened was it took Twitter years to come up if a bicycle?

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64I0C920100519?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Technology%29



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