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I'd love to hear how you think they make money in this world.
by sulam 10y ago
I'd love to hear how you think they make money in this world.
- riffic 10y agoadvertising, same as any other company. edit: oh are you talking status quo, or an idealized business model?
- throwanem 10y agoOh neat. So, in order to avoid having ads filtered at federation boundaries, thus delivering zero value to ad buyers and zero revenue to themselves, they now have a very strong incentive to come up with advertising only imperceptibly different from everything that is not advertising.
- riffic 10y agosee edit, I assumed the question was referring to the status quo. A better model than advertising would be to charge those broadcasting their message to a large number of recipients (your CNNs and Trumps should be the ones paying to play).
- sulam 10y agoSo you drive away your biggest draw? In the media-centric view of the world, those people would be asking for a cut of revenues. There's clearly a major disconnect from reality on one side or the other here. Any examples of successful businesses that do it the way you describe?
- riffic 10y ago> Any examples of successful businesses that do it the way you describe? Billboard owners
- sulam 10y agoBillboards work because it's captive traffic. Very few if any sites on the net have captive traffic. Twitter certainly doesn't even in the current model and I think the model you're describing would be even harder to manage in terms of spam and abuse, not to mention coordinating with law enforcement. So likely even less captive.
- m-p-3 10y agoThe didn't apparently.
- sulam 10y agoThey are absolutely making cash revenue. GAAP losses come down to share-based compensation, which doesn't affect their bank balance.
- flukus 10y agoThey would still be the goto place for most twitter users. If they don't screw it up with censorship.
- marssaxman 10y agoSame way they make money in this world, which is to say, not at all?