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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:17:44 +0000

[...] raised over $5M in funding last July. Digital Garage also invested in the company this past January as [...]

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TechCrunch en français » Twitter à la recherche de nouveaux fonds — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:20:11 +0000

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By: Twitter Reportedly Putting More Gas In The Tank

Twitter Reportedly Putting More Gas In The Tank — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:27:46 +0000

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By: Does a Facebook-Twitter Deal Make Sense? | Mark Evans

Does a Facebook-Twitter Deal Make Sense? | Mark Evans — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:17:13 +0000

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(-multitag-) | Twitter: las sinrazones de los early adopters? — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:55:55 +0000

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By: Delroy Frazer

Delroy Frazer — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:59:16 +0000

I guess each site will have its audience, but I clicked around a few times on the twittster, it did not have much substance to keep me…because I really don’t care what my pal did this morning…and I don’t have the time to keep up…, but I guess it will be popular amongst newbies…or teenies…I think they will graduate from the site as soon as they get used to it…not long after…all the best to them…

By: onestarinc

onestarinc — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:16:58 +0000

I don’t frequently use twitter but I’ve been on the site a few times, I think they were on to something with the global connectivity, but I honestly just don’t see the value in the site! It isn’t 95 again or anything but the big deals that have been getting done is enough to make any greedy VC lick their chops at the numbers these sites have been exiting for, so I think that’s why your seeing alot of companies receiving funding.

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By: Jay (living in First Life)

Jay (living in First Life) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:17:39 +0000

Maybe venture capitalists are getting into the “business” of charity now:

http://livingin...l-as-a-charity/

By: Toni D.

Toni D. — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:19:12 +0000

We tried Twitter and found it to not be terribly useful. Cute gizmo but I don’t see a huge future

http://www.bizo...r-chirp-louder/

By: Jay (living in First Life)

Jay (living in First Life) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:02:00 +0000

It’s funny to see the awful grammar/intelligence of the Twitter fans. Some classic examples:

#21 Andrew – looks like he can’t speak outside of “Twitter speak”

#35 Jim Gregory – “some of tha adds are cute”. I’m sure your mother finds it cute that her son spells like a 4 year old.

There are some of you who make decent points, but why would a specific mobile carrier purchase Twitter? By not being independent, it would get cut off by the other players and they’d launch their own. It can only survive as an independent. This locks out a number of potential acquisition opportunities.

To those of you who think the nay-sayers are a statistical sample of one, I would argue that the adoption of Twitter at 300,000 is really low. Not just that, but the actual usage of those 300,000 is even lower. Many people have signed up, tried it out, and left it because it’s such a worthless service.

If you have real things to communicate with people, you use email or a phone. Twitter is for twits (users, investors, management, etc.).

Welcome to the Emperor’s New Clothes 2.0 baby!

By: Jim Gregory

Jim Gregory — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:12:29 +0000

Well if nothing else some of tha adds are cute

By: Derek Scruggs

Derek Scruggs — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:43:56 +0000

@useless twitter – do you have a daughter aged 12-18? You pretty much described her daily existence. I’m skeptical Twitter will find a big revenue model on its own, but its got to be attractive to mobile providers.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:29:37 +0000

I am amazed at everyone’s ability to extrapolate their opinion to the world’s: “I don’t want to use Twitter, therefore nobody does.” What do you suppose the margin of error is on a statistical sample of one?

By: useless twitter

useless twitter — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:49:57 +0000

Twitter is useless.

Funding doesn’t mean anything! Self claimed visionaries (with lots of ego) have time to type messages such as,

- I woke up
- Brushing teeth
- The next one .. You don’t want to know what I am doing now (no, we don’t want to know)
- blow drying

The fad will go away in few months. Sure, some clueless company may buy them before that.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:50:58 +0000

Twitter could become the next (Facebook) Platform — but for mobile — if they play their cards right. See http://www.tech...orm-for-mobile/

By: RandomRat

RandomRat — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:01:23 +0000

Ah I smell some Google money in the deal. Mr Costolo (Dick) made his fortune from FeedBurner acquisition and now he is chilling out investing. Good move Dick, atleast you’re not gonna loose any money – Twitter will give you something back…

By: Jason McMinn

Jason McMinn — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:48:30 +0000

Boris – comparing Radio to Twitter is like . . . well there is no comparison. I don’t discount the text messages value to a carrier, but they will never truly get to a mass market. Sure maybe kids have time to send a text message every 10 minutes because they think people care what they are doing, but no one else does. Use IM and e-mail. Next.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:42:42 +0000

..but on the subject of Twitter – is it becoming a brand in the States? I’m stuck somewhere miles away, so don’t know. But I think its value is based around being a brand. A brand is v. difficult to create but easy to monetize long term.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:41:12 +0000

to number 11 – YouTube’s mounting bandwidth costs? As far as I am aware they pay virtually nothing in b/w charges. They peer with T2 and T3 telcos, and to be honest they could charge Telcos (less than transit price) for their content if they tried.

By: Nabeel Hyatt

Nabeel Hyatt — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:24:53 +0000

Congrats to Biz, Ev, Union Square, and Charles River Ventures. I was real skeptic when it first came out, and I’ll admit I’m not the perfect use case for the service.

But recently I’ve seen first hand how useful and different Twitter is from IM and Email. I see it adding real value not as a way to spread missives like, “I just had a peanut butter sandwich” – but instead as a way to keep highly mobile, loosely joined, close friends in contact with each other (like, say, the way I was in college).