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Research in Motion misses its third quarter forecasts. [Bloomberg] Yahoo has outsourced its radio product to CBS. [Tech Crunch] Why Twitter turned down Facebook. [NYT] Apple contends that Macs are "safe out of the box," and removes its call for users to download antivirus software. [CNet] Jonathan Miller thinks it's his turn to run Yahoo. [Portfolio] by Rafael Cohen Related Links Twitter Tops List of Fastest Growing Social Networks First Bytes: Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, IBM, ...
News Bits: Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Man of Mystery
Contentinople: —
... 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 , companies like JetBlue Airways, Dell, and Whole Foods Market have used Twitter in this way before, but Twitter "[hasn't] studied the business cases much. We ...
Inside Twitter Think
WebProNews Feed —
... Evan said that. "Twitter gets daily calls from companies who want to pay for sponsorships, but it plans to avoid making money from ads. Instead, it will figure out a way to charge businesses who use Twitter to talk with customers or sell products. Companies like ...
Revenue Coming for Twitter: Why They Said “No” to Facebook
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... According to the New York Times, he still believes Twitter has too much left to do. Figuring out how to make money is the first priority. ...
Why Twitter Didn’t Sell to Facebook — Really [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... The New York Times’ Claire Miller attended a Churchill Club function to fete Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. In an onstage interview, Williams talked about many different aspects of his micro-blogging service, which now has 6 million subscribers. First of all, wow — that is an impressive jump in the number of subscribers. ...
A Twitter business plan: On the near horizon?
BloggingStocks —
Filed under: Internet, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG)Today was a perfect storm for Twitter, the microblogging application led by Evan Williams (who created Pyra Labs and Blogger, selling it to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) in 2003 as blogging went bigtime). The company was all over business technology media, making an appearance at the Wall Street Journal with a rather ingenue "User's Guide to Twitter" and in the New York Times with an explanation of why Twitter turned down a merger with Facebook ...
Evan Williams on Facebook’s Attempt to Buy Twitter
Inside Facebook —
... Today, Twitter’s CEO Evan Williams offered some of the first public comments on Facebook’s acquisition attempt. Williams told Claire Cain Miller of the NY Times, ...
Linkpost | 12.4.2008
TechBlog —
... - Online sales up 13 percent for the full Thanksgiving weekend. • Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook - It wasn't the right time, and Twitter still wanted to make some money. Fancy that! • ...
Two Reasons Why Twitter Rejected Facebook's $500 Million Offer
mocoNews —
... , and now two reasons are surfacing as to why. The explanations came out after The New York Times covered a Tuesday night event in San Francisco, where Twitter's CEO and co-founder Evan Williams spoke publicly about the failed sale. The first reason was offered up by William himself, and the second came later ...
Twitter's Revenue Plan Revealed: Hire Someone To Come Up With One
Silicon Alley Insider —
... All we know so far about microblogging service Twitter's revenue plans -- scheduled to be magically revealed in Q1 2009 -- is what the New York Times reported in early December: ...
Surprise! Twitter still thinking about a revenue model
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... TechCrunch, along with dozens of other online news sources, ran with a statement that co-founder Biz Stone made to a British trade magazine, "Marketing," about Twitter charging for corporate accounts.
Stone and co-founder Evan Williams have been murmuring about the likely business model for some time now -- We and the New York Times both covered it in December.
The idea is to provide premium features to businesses that elect to sign up for premium accounts. One such feature Stone shared with us was an account ...
Bits: Twitter Raises $35 Million
NYT > Technology —
... Square Ventures, based in New York, and Spark Capital, based in Boston. Those firms will also participate in the latest round, as could previous angel investors including Ron Conway and Marc Andreessen, which could bring the total to $40 million, said Todd Chaffee of Institutional Venture Partners. They are still working out the final details. The company was not looking for new investors and still has money in the bank, said Biz Stone, a co-founder, in an interview. In December, Twitter C.E.O. and co-founder Evan Williams said that though he had originally planned to raise ...
The New Search War: Google vs Facebook
Mashable! —
... it cost less than 1/10th as much as Twitter would have, and comes with arguably a better platform and a team that’s just as strong. Yes, Twitter has more than 20 times as many users, but the acquisition of FriendFeed was clearly about technology and engineering talent – one thing Facebook is not lacking, after all, is users. ...
Twitter's Chief Talks About Lists, Traffic and Revenue
NYT > Technology —
... has long promised to help new users figure out who they should follow and help avid users filter their overflowing streams of tweets. Its newest feature, ...
