How Twitter makes money?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by teckinik, Nov 8, 2009.

  1. #1
    Twitter is now worth several million dollars. I know most of the social networking main income source is from ads but I don't see any ads in Twitter so from where they are making millions.
     
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  2. furca

    furca Well-Known Member

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    #2
    Several million dollars? Try several hundred million- or billion. That site gets massive traffic!
     
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  3. vishal96

    vishal96 Peon

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    #3
    You see Twitter doesn't make money from banner ads, i hope you have seen many twitter applications, these application developers or owners advertise on Twitter on its sidebar and that to its just ads.
     
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  4. timeless1983

    timeless1983 Guest

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    #4
    They don't make any money. Yet...
     
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    kittyluver Notable Member

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    Yes you're correct. But they have proposed to make more money in 2010 by the following ways-

    SMS revenue-sharing and brand monitoring will provide Twitter revenue in 2010 with additional paid features made available to enthusiast users later this year.
     
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  6. bluebelt91

    bluebelt91 Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Every networking site first creates its impression in the market.. once it got popular they will start charging money for ads..
    I guess twitter is very popular now and soon they will srart banner or PPC ads..
     
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    sgfinancialfreedom Peon

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    #7
    Wow.. Its totally sad that twitter is not making any money at all considering the amount of traffic that they get and stuff.

    I dont even get as much traffic and i am already making money
     
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    klkhosting Well-Known Member

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    Myspace started that why with no advertisment, now look at them.
     
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    tjsocr22 Active Member

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    I think they are just going to build up traffic like they have been doing (crazy numbers) haha, and then they will start putting ad's on and stuff and look for other investors as a way to make money. They don't need to advertise any more thats for sure though.
     
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    ptbdr Active Member

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    focus currently is on to attract more users then comes and monetization
     
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    #11
    What a company like that is "worth" isn't necessarily related to its income at all.

    When Microsoft paid $400,000,000 for Hotmail, Hotmail had very little real income.

    Amazon didn't make any profits at all in their first decade.
     
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    Laceygirl Notable Member

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    Don't worry. Twitter will be loaded full of advertising spam soon enough.

    Funny line. "You don't even get as much traffic as twitter".
     
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    #13
    The shortest answer to the question “How Does Twitter Make Money?” is they don’t make money. That’s right, for three years, Twitter has basically been in a money pit. Someone has been pumping money into Twitter though to keep it afloat.
     
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  14. d0rhk

    d0rhk Well-Known Member

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    #14
    They'll make their money sooner or later..
     
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