Twitter announces new funding round

http://blog.twitter.com/2008/06/welcoming-bijan-and-jeff.html

by babul • 18 years ago

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babul• 18 years ago

"Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model".

Yet to be defined.

Hopefully not direct text message ads!

rwebb• 18 years ago

bezos. dang.

electric• 18 years ago

That's Dr. Bezos.

rufo• 18 years ago

Congrats to Twitter!

wave2• 18 years ago

I think Twitter is in great position to start a contextual and geolocation advertising from the SMS messages been sent and from the phone numbers been used. Now or later they will need to move to a sustainable business model.

schtog• 18 years ago

Ads, ads and ads!

Everybody hates them but everyone wants to use them in their apps.

How about someone actually make an application that is actually capabl of making revenue by its own, meaning the service they offer is something people pay for rather than somewhere down the line someone is supposed to click on some thing that sends them somewhere where they can buy something?

(Not a bash on wave you might be right for twitter and it is a good post, just seems generally most startups just make something which seem to have no chance of ever making money otherways than perhaps on some ads.)

wave2• 18 years ago

You are correct about people hating ads, but people are also reasonable about websites using ads sensibly. I personally don’t visit websites infested with ads, but what you see on reddit, digg, and Google are very reasonable.

paul• 18 years ago

There are very few newspapers or magazines that don't rely on advertising revenue, why shouldn't websites? Advertising isn't something that was invented on the web.

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

I don't mind ad supported websites, because I'm pretty much ad blind. Years of using ad supported websites has conditioned my brain to simply ignore the ads; I just don't notice them very often.

So if companies can make money off of the suckers who do click the ads, and still provide me with a free service, I'm fine with that.

Of course I could just think I'm ad blind, and in reality I'm being brainwashed by these ads which I don't consciously recognize, but still subconsciously see.

sanj• 18 years ago

What's with the weird backlinks on the bottom of that page?

coglethorpe• 18 years ago

I'm glad somebody's paying for all those text messages I'm sending.

iloveyouocean• 18 years ago

Pretty much all of Twitter's investment money is going straight into the pockets of the cell companies to cover messaging costs. I wonder if money invested in cell company stock will have a better return than money invested in Twitter over the lifetime of Twitter?

Twitter announces new funding round

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