>"It took Twitter 10 years to turn a profit" Twitter and Vice Media(as opposed to just the magazine) both have origins of 2006. From the article: >"In 2006,

>"It took Twitter 10 years to turn a profit" Twitter and Vice Media(as opposed to just the magazine) both have origins of 2006. From the article: >"In 2006, Vice started Virtue, a cheekily named ad agency that allowed the magazine to deploy its creative talents on behalf of brands. A year later, Vice became one of the first digital-media outlets to get into online video with vbs.tv, a digital-video site funded with a $2 million investment from Viacom."