Comments on: Want Your Service Integrated With TweetDeck? It’ll Cost You A Cool $50,000

By: Seesmic Takes The Lead – What Will Tweetdeck Do To Catch Up? « Tweetworks

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:17:52 +0000

[...] had built closed platforms off the backbone of an open platform. When I mentioned the rumor that Tweetdeck was supposedly charging developers $50,000 to have their application added he just laughed. Of course I understand why these guys didn’t [...]

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:37:21 +0000

you’re kidding me. You don’t take your stupid feedback forum seriously. You integrate services that we not requested, while neglecting those, which have a strong demand.

seesmic is not a bit better than tweetdeck. At least they’re being honest.

By: The Price Of Success: Pay-To-Play Continues To Shape The Twitter Ecosystem

The Price Of Success: Pay-To-Play Continues To Shape The Twitter Ecosystem — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:59:34 +0000

[...] a big business. Last month we broke the news that TweetDeck was asking some services for around ,000 to appear in the client. Now we’ve gotten word that TwitterBerry, one of the most popular [...]

By: The Price Of Success: Pay-To-Play Continues To Shape The Twitter Ecosystem | Stoth

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:46:48 +0000

[...] a big business. Last month we broke the news that TweetDeck was asking some services for around $50,000 to appear in the client. Now we’ve gotten word that TwitterBerry, one of the most popular [...]

By: The Price Of Success: Pay-To-Play Continues To Shape The Twitter Ecosystem | Spin Valley Post

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:30:19 +0000

By: The Price Of Success: Pay-To-Play Continues To Shape The Twitter Ecosystem | Webbyn.com

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:02 +0000

[...] a big business. Last month we broke the news that TweetDeck was asking some services for around $50,000 to appear in the client. Now we’ve gotten word that… « Google [...]

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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:02:57 +0000

By: Pay-To-Play Continues To Shape The Twitter Ecosystem

Pay-To-Play Continues To Shape The Twitter Ecosystem — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:54:24 +0000

By: Can Twitter apps save Seesmic? – The Next Web

Can Twitter apps save Seesmic? – The Next Web — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:31:31 +0000

[...] Techcrunch and Mashable point the way to further corporate paintjobs for cash in the future, while there has been talk about Tweetdeck charging web services to be added to the app. These models could be copied by [...]

By: Twitter Client Tweetdeck Raises Around $2 Million In Funding

Twitter Client Tweetdeck Raises Around $2 Million In Funding — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:17:34 +0000

[...] for Mac, Windows and Linux, it just requires Adobe AIR. The company has been working on getting more services integrated into its client. Last week, it launched an iPhone app that has been gaining popularity quickly. [...]

By: Like TweetDeck? Like TechCrunch? Then You’ll Love This. | Design Website

Like TweetDeck? Like TechCrunch? Then You’ll Love This. | Design Website — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:11:00 +0000

[...] Adobe AIR. The company, which secured angel funding in January, has been working on getting more services integrated into its client. Last week, it launched an iPhone app that has been gaining popularity [...]

By: Like TweetDeck? Like TechCrunch? next You’ll Love that. | Cellphone Ultra

Like TweetDeck? Like TechCrunch? next You’ll Love that. | Cellphone Ultra — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:44:48 +0000

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Like TweetDeck? Like TechCrunch? Then You’ll Love This. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:13:36 +0000

By: Seesmic launches new Desktop update… but where’s the video? – The Next Web

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:17:36 +0000

[...] may well come with time. It could well be though, that with Tweetdeck developer Iain Dodsworth planning to charge for adding services Loic believes his Desktop app is the real moneyspinner after all. Tweet [...]

By: Fresh From FriendFeed | Alex's Blog

Fresh From FriendFeed | Alex's Blog — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:37:29 +0000

[...] http://bit.ly/BU61wWant to integrate your service to TweetDeck? It will only cost you $50k. http://bit.ly/H42Al . Yeah sure…let me write a chequeIs writing about the OH&S ramifications of balloon [...]

By: Tweetworks TV Episode 63 – We Need Your Vote and I Told You So « Tweetworks

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:30:58 +0000

[...] to Seesmic Desktop. Loic Le Meur put out the call to Twitter applications in a response to the news that Tweetdeck will now charge $50,000 for [...]

By: Twitter Corral …. plus a side chuckle — Shooting at Bubbles

Twitter Corral …. plus a side chuckle — Shooting at Bubbles — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:38:36 +0000

[...] Want Your Service Integrated With TweetDeck? It’ll Cost You A Cool $50,000 via TechCrunch – Once more we see how companies being built on top of Twitter are finding ways to make money; but $50,000 to have TweetDeck include your service inside of their Twitter client is a bit much. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:48:37 +0000

Or, if URL shorteners want so badly to show up in Tweetdeck, have them conform to a certain spec, leave the marketing to them, and surface an “Add New” option in your UI, to allow users to use whichever service they like — just as IE, Firefox and Chrome do for their search-providers list. Which is nice — it lets me use Chrome, but set Bing as my default search engine. Everybody wins.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:36:42 +0000

This just seems like a colossally bad idea.

Can you imagine Microsoft or Google charging bloggers for the privilege of displaying the contents of their RSS feeds in Outlook or Google Reader? Erm, no.

You can’t reasonably sell off the eyeballs of the users of an app that couldn’t have taken more than a week or two to build — not for long, anyway. News of new stuff travels extraordinarily fast in the Twitterverse. Eventually, someone else will come along with another nice Twitter client that does everything yours does plus one little thing, and that’s it — you’re done.

I like Tweetdeck — it’s a nice little app — but there are *lots* of problems with it, some today, some that haven’t been imagined yet, and as more and more people start coming on line, to Twitter and Facebook and Flickr and YouTube and all the rest, those problems are only going to get worse. *That* is the problem to solve. One of them anyway. Populating list boxes? Not the problem to solve. It’s too easy.

By: JillK

JillK — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:53:42 +0000

Given the Twitter Open API’s, when to monetize is critical. Only large media companies that are “must buys” like Yahoo Reader for Twitter, AOL AIM, Glam’s Tinker.com Trends, Google real time search can sustainably make money today. Jumping into charging too much too early will get other clients like Loic’s Seesmic ahead of you.

If it is cool for users, you need to add it. If it is not, best not to integrate and find other ways of making money. Twitter is open, and you need to be open too.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:44:49 +0000

Ian,

You should take a serious look at Tinker.com and add their trends to Tweetdeck. They’ve been reaching out to many Twitter applications, and users like their services.

They just launched Featured Trends- this should be a standard for Tweetdeck client- gives really useful information on the top topics and events people are Twittering about.

Don’t know if they will pay you $50K, but Publishers have made a lot of money from Glam in the past. Definitely the leading Twitter monetization model today.

By: america starts

america starts — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:53:49 +0000

I agree. why doesn’t twitter just start charging all these services that ride on it?

By: JP

JP — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:25:56 +0000

Don’t expect an answer to that question.

It’s surely an interesting business model to charge companies for you to access their API so that you can add value to your app. Twitter has already hinted that they may charge for API access. Tweetdeck purports to flip that model around and charge the service provider for using their service… mostly in a method that dilutes the main business model for said providers: ads served on page displays.

By: blah

blah — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:05:17 +0000

I do not think tweetdeck is on a high-horse either, rather the company is being prudent by exploring revenue opportunities.

By: Twitter Needs to Buy TweetDeck | Stay N' Alive

Twitter Needs to Buy TweetDeck | Stay N' Alive — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:19:13 +0000

[...] to a recent TechCrunch article, Iain Dodsworth himself is already looking to monetize via this method. His method doesn’t [...]