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Are you measuring "volume of communication" in messages, despite the fact that ICQ messages are one-to-one and private, whereas Twitter messages are one-to-many
by jackowayed 16y ago
Are you measuring "volume of communication" in messages, despite the fact that ICQ messages are one-to-one and private, whereas Twitter messages are one-to-many and (for the most part) public??
- axod 16y agoIs it obvious that one (public) is more monetizable than the other (private)? Facebook is hugely profitable, but its messages are private...
- jackowayed 16y agoWell, Twitter's actually bringing in decent revenue thanks to search deals. There's a general agreement that realtime search of tweets is useful, whether or not it's particularly monetizable. And calling Facebook "hugely profitable" is a stretch.
- axod 16y agoTwitter has like 2 strategic 'customers' hasn't it? That seems like a really risky revenue stream to me, if you can even call it that.
- steveklabnik 16y agoYou could argue that Mozilla has one.
- axod 16y agoTotally agree. And similarly (especially with the rapid growth of chrome) I think mozilla is pretty vulnerable.