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Of course the other factor: Twitter: funding $160m, you say rev $25m Twitpic: funding $0, rev $5m So I think twitpic comes out pretty fantastically well.
by axod 17y ago
Of course the other factor:
Twitter: funding $160m, you say rev $25m
Twitpic: funding $0, rev $5m
So I think twitpic comes out pretty fantastically well.
- Readmore 17y agoThat is one way to look at it but the headline says. 'Twitter makes nothing.' So the comment is about setting the record straight, not comparing business models.
- jfarmer 17y agoThat's daft. Funding isn't a liability (in the financial sense), and those numbers don't say anything about growth prospects.
- axod 17y agoIt'll be interesting to see how Twitter grow their revenue. The number of customers who will pay $m's to do a deal seems reasonably small.
- blhack 17y agoFantastic point. In terms of scaling, how much larger is twitter than twitpic? $160 Million larger?
- johnrob 17y agoFor me, the most amazing thing is the "time to hockey stick": Friday night he starts hacking, and by Monday it's getting blogged about and going viral. That is an amazingly short amount of time to build something people want. Most of us have to iterate a long time to achieve that.
- rythie 17y agoThat's in the short term of course. Twitpic is essentially a feature on top of Twitter and without Twitter, Twitpic wouldn't exist. In the end, if Twitter implemented picture hosting themselves, Twitpic would surely slowly die.