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Twitter CEO: “It’s amazing anyone uses Twitter today”
The Next Web —
... amazing anyone uses Twitter today. It’s hard.”
Twitter has grown big by keeping Twitter simple and being extremely careful when it comes to introducing new features. But Evan promises some pretty drastic changes in 2009 with support for Groups and sub-networks. This is one of the most requested features and should make Twitter more attractive to business users too. And that might just be where a revenue model comes in.
Read the whole article on CNET with more in depth analysis by Rafe Needleman who was actually present at the ...
Linkpost | 12.3.2008
TechBlog —
... - Gary McKinnon, who says he broke into Johnson Space Center computers looking for evidence NASA knows about extraterrestrials, has final hearing next month. • Twitter CEO: The revenue's coming soon, but I won't tell you how - Expect cash for Twitter in the first quarter of 2009, he says. • ...
Twitter: Secret Business Model On Track For Q1
Silicon Alley Insider —
Twitter CEO Evan Williams made an appearance in San Francisco yesterday and dropped a few new hints about Twitter's secret business model . Evan still isn't saying just how his service can make money without doing things that Twitter's users will hate, but here's what we know.
Via CNET:
Revenue is coming Q1, Evan promises. "I don't want to raise money in 2009."
Twitter is in talks with "large consumer packaged good companies." But no word yet on just what that means.
In the works: Grouping Twitter friends ...
News Bits: Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Man of Mystery
Contentinople: —
... . But more importantly, he promised that revenue was on the way in the first quarter of 2009 . Of course, we still don't really know how. Williams continued to hint mysteriously about Twitter's top-secret, for-Evan's-eyes-only revenue strategy, reassuring us that "We will make money, and I can't say exactly how because... we can't predict how the businesses we're in will work." Alright then. He rejected the idea of selling ads, saying instead that Twitter will find a way to charge business to talk to customers or sell products via Twitter. According to The New York Times ...
Inside Twitter Think
WebProNews Feed —
... Yet, in kind of a throw-back to old school internet thought, Twitter has zero ads. If this was part of the iEntry Network (which owns Twellow.com ) or most other Internet media groups there would have been ads from the start. Founder Evan Williams has taken a different approach that must perplex and frustrate his investors. Of course, being different often breeds the biggest successes in business, so I am not passing judgment. At the Churchill Club Tuesday night Evan said that. "Twitter gets daily calls from companies who want to pay for ...
Around the Web 11.3.08: Google cuts back, Yahoo gets out of radio, MySpace goes mobile, mice inherit the earth
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- Shock, surprise: Google is cutting back. "We have to behave as though we don't know" what's going to happen, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt says. WSJ
-- Twitter: We don't need to make any stinkin' money -- yet. CNet
-- Yahoo gets out of the Internet radio business. PaidContent.org
-- CBS is building an Internet radio powerhouse. A VC
-- MySpace Video goes mobile. NewTeeVee
-- Logitech rolls out ...
A Tweet Time with Ev Williams
Tech Observer —
... Kevin Maney writes: Had a great time interviewing Twitter CEO Evan Williams at a Churchill Club gathering last night. Pretty funny when he finally ...
Revenue Coming for Twitter: Why They Said “No” to Facebook
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... ups and downs, but has only been able to raise capital thus far. Originally, Twitter planned on putting off revenues until 2010, but since Evan Williams became CEO back in October—plans have changed.
We’re looking at Q1 revenues. The original plan was to focus on revenues in 2010. That’s no longer the case, since I don’t want to raise money in 2009.
And forget raising money only through ads and sponsorships. According to CNET, Twitter wants revenues that are product-based.
Williams said, “Google ...
Twitter Business Model: Access to Non-Public Data for Businesses
Beet.TV —
... , says that while speculation is rampant about various monetization strategies for Twitter, she expects the sale of analytics and non-public data is the most likely scenario. ...
Twitter: Possibly Valued at $250 Million
ReadWriteWeb —
... At first glance the deal seems to contradict co-founder and CEO Evan Williams assertion last month that he doesn't want to raise money in 2009, but look a little deeper and it may just make sense. ...
Why Investing $100M in Twitter Isn’t Crazy [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... , Twitter has yet to make a dollar, and may not do so by the time we reach the end of 2009. Meanwhile, the company is facing a series of ...
