I think Twitter can make money in several creative ways that tap into the ecosphere they are creating.

twitter is a communication network like a phone company. what they are doing significantly different is opening up the points of entry to that network.

the last report i read said that 53% of twitter users do not use twitter.com, rather they use another entry point like a client, widget, plugin – whatever. More than half of all users.

facebook or myspace never did that. there are so many custom ways to use the network and it’s only growing.

How many would pay NOW even without the quality of service guarantee – as is.

there should be a SocialFlooz startup that allowed people to buy SocialFlooz points and pick which services the points go to. that way i don’t have to a separate subscription for each one i wanted. Hook it into your bank account and you can subscribe to any of these services you want. $3 recurring monthly for youtube, twitter and facebook. Maybe $2 for Pandora. $11 a month charged from your bank or credit card without having to deal individually with each one.

My biggest concern with Twitter is it’s MASSIVE turnover rate for new customers – up to 70%. You need to keep a lot of people coming in the flood gates every month to make up for that plus provide growth. S

ure some people have found ways to make money off twitter, but shouldn’t twitter be the ones making money off of twitter?

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After thinking in my head that they had just wasted 30 seconds of my time talking in a circle of insignificant fluff, all the while assuming I was dumb enough to believe their statement actually STATED anything, my response would have to be…

“So, help me understand… if revenue doesn’t matter, at all, then why the hell are there ANY costs to begin with, and when did they start accepting eyeballs as currency at the bank? And one more thing… CPM is dying, which means eyeballs? Same. Based on massive amounts of research done in the past few years, don’t our advertisers value action, not eyeballs? So again… help me understand?”

If the goal is to sell, part of the sell is the valuation, and the valuation of your eyeballs is fundamentally lower if you haven’t done a darn thing to begin formulating a monetization plan, or evaluating the data within those eyeballs to evaluate likelihood of action, click-through, etc.

If you are going for “shock value” by stating revenue doesn’t matter, then touche. But I think your employer & signer of your paycheck would likely be happy to know, especially in these times, that revenue is quite insignificant to you – instead, you would be happy just having these friendly eyeballs view your blog each day. Who needs something as trivial as money when you have all of us to share the joy of being in the red with throughout eternity?

All my love,

Do not question Michael’s judgement on this issue. He is right 100%. Twitter is the next google ok. You guys just don’t have the vision that Michael does.

Michael, you are like god in our country. We worship the earth that you walk on. (This is serious not joke).

Who are these other guys, malone, diller, murdoch. I’ve never heard of any of them. Tell them to crawl back into hole where they come from.

Everything in this dangerous, roulette universe we’ve created is growth, growth, get registered users….And assume because you have lots of users that your product will make money.

We are in extremely dangerous times because all venture capital going into tech companies in the future will be shaped by what happens to Twitter and Facebook.

This is an absurd statement:
“Diller and Malone are already dinosaurs in a fast changing world.”

Diller had the foresight to buy collegehumor.com (1 example) and help blow it out. It’s growing everyday. Nothing about this site or most of what IAC owns resembles any pre-historic.