A business model for Twitter: Pay up

The Web spirit of "build an audience and figure out the business model later" is a great filter. It allows products and services into the wild without barriers or the need to sell advertisers on an unproven concept.

Those who can build an audience, such as Twitter and FriendFeed, and before them Google, Facebook, and dozens of others who turned into giants, have the scale to develop monetization schemes that a loyal and fanatic user base won't ... Full Story »

Posted by Juliet Sallette
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Subjects: Sci/Tech, Business
Topics: Computers, Internet
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Posted by: Posted by Juliet Sallette - May 17, 2008 - 2:37 PM PDT
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Edited by: Beth Wellington - May 18, 2008 - 11:13 AM PDT

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by Beth Wellington - Oct. 1, 2008

Not much here, here--merely offers the suggestion that Twitter charge customers, rather than use ads for revenue. Would have liked more information on the success of pay to play with other premium services and on the usage of twitter v.s. the early adoption of other internet killer aps he mentions such as Google, Facebook, etc. This article goes against the conventional wisdom as expressed by Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson's upcoming book out from Hyperion stemming ... More »

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by Juliet Sallette - Oct. 1, 2008
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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008
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by Matt Monahan - Oct. 1, 2008

An interesting monetization solution - not necessarily proven or viable, but interesting none the less. Subscription models are noted as not being proven, thus speculative journalism like this belongs elsewhere - like on a blog, not on the 1 billion dollar plus site CNET...

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