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Will Twitter Sell or IPO? CEO Dick Costolo Says "Neither"
- yuvadam 16y agoI have a hard time seeing how Twitter can exist on its own right. Twitter is a technological platform, par excellence. Twitter facilitates the exchange and dissemination of 140-character messages, no more, no less. I fail to see how they can make a proper business out of that, in the long run.
- patrickaljord 16y agoThey have tons of users, they can make some good money with ads. They're not even pushing hard right now but I think they're not losing money though I may be wrong.
- nostromo 16y agoWhile correct, your description seems a bit reductionist to me. Twitter's value doesn't come from its ability to shuttle short messages around the web -- but from it's cultural presence, it's more-open-than-Facebook social graph, and the large amount of people who use it as a simple-enough-for-ma RSS reader.
- yuvadam 16y agoIf Twitter aims to be yet another RSS reader, so be it. But I doubt that's what they're going after. Twitter indeed has a strong presence on the web, but I'm wondering how that presence can be translated into a self-standing business.
- ROFISH 16y agoActually, they have been making quite a bit of money in the sale of public tweets. Wholesale data with their "Firehose", 50% and 5% of all tweets stream is not cheap if that's what you want.
- swombat 16y agohttp://business.twitter.com/ http://business.twitter.com/ 'nuff said.
- hop 16y agoThey should have businesses accounts pay $100/year, honor system with a badge or something if you have paid (your company would look really bad if it didn't), and they could make a ton without having to do much.