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How would "Twitter" capture that value and not some third-party platform who and offers those filter services? The value and revenue isn't with Twitter then, so
by loceng 10y ago
How would "Twitter" capture that value and not some third-party platform who and offers those filter services? The value and revenue isn't with Twitter then, so then how does Twitter pay bills? Or am I seeing this in a different light than you do?
- dasil003 10y agoAs far as I can tell a simple freemium model would have worked. You charge for the firehose and anything high volume, but you give a generous free allowance to keep the grassroots ecosystem healthy. They could have played all the same pricing games that Facebook is now playing, except across a much wider range of channels. I'm not saying it was a slam dunk, but a lot of talk about this back in 2007/2008 and there was a palpable excitement about Twitter apps. Within a few years the media-company mindset had taken grasp, the valuations and expectations exploded, and now we have boring old Twitter which is still a damn cool thing in its own right, but which is seen as a failure because of a combination of pedestrian vision and mismanaged expectations.
- macca321 10y agoI'm not saying it would have been a good business decision for Twitter, but it would have been pretty neat for developers and users.