The Great Twitter Gravy Train

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Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge dive into the fetid and yet compelling pool of microblogging loveliness and celebrity that is Twitter. If Twitter defines the social media bubble, what does that mean for you and me, to say nothing of Ashton Kitchen or whatever his name is? Where’s the money coming from? And who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes? Find out in Shot of Jaq!

66 Comments to “The Great Twitter Gravy Train”

  1. Pat 11 December 2009 at 8:30 pm #

    I was very skeptical of twitter and social networking sites in general when they first started up. I’ve learned to see that they do have some value. Personally I prefer identica but it’s basically a cooler/Free version of twitter.

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  3. winkleink 15 December 2009 at 2:27 pm #

    I agree with Aq that if Twitter isn’t a bubble it will just be absorbed into the infrastructure of the way the web works.

    For me the disruption could come from GoogleWave. It counters Twitters closed environment by allowing anybody to set up their own Wave server and connect it to other Wave services. I see Wave at the moment like Twitter on speed.

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  4. Ade 22 December 2009 at 3:18 pm #

    Already making a profit !

    “Twitter is raking in some $25 million from agreements to let Google and Microsoft index its tweets, pushing the microblog service into profitability, according to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report.”

    http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Twitter-Profitable-From-25M-in-Search-Deals-With-Google-Microsoft-458197/

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  5. Ade 24 December 2009 at 1:43 am #

    http://www.nasdaq.com/newscontent/20091221/Twitter’s-search-agreements-provide-a-new-revenue-stream.aspx

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