There are many ways that they could monetize it, but they might just be waiting for it to explode before trying to sell. (to sell it for the most profit)

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I suspect the twitter fad will slack off after a while. But I’m not in a position to judge as to whether or not it is still building but I suspect it is. Once it matures, it may collapse almost as fast.

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Good post, but you miss one of the main tenants of Twitter – it is a different experience to each user, based on who they choose to follow. An ivory tower holdout can choose only to follow non-commercial tweeters, while an online marketer will follow mostly commercial users. Most tweeple will fall somewhere in between.

Corporately, Twitter is a valuable tool for product updates and customer service – if you’re not interested in that company and don’t use their products, simply avoid following them.

As to the monetization of Twitter, they are rock-steady financially. They recently reported another cash injection of $36 million, which they simply added to the funds from their last injection, still sitting in the bank. Their only real cost is the 29 employees and their hardware & connectivity, so there’s no big overhead to maintain.

According to their latest press release, they are studying various models for monetizing the site. Only those who expect the world to be handed to them for free expect powerful services with no advertising or other commercial exposure; the rest realize SOMEONE has to foot the bill, and most prefer it be advertisers rather than digging into their own pockets.

And really, if the Twitter interface started to include AdSense-style ads off to the right, or just under the header on the site or in Twirl, TweetDeck, etc, it should have no more impact than people deciding not to use Google or Yahoo because paid listings appear above & beside your search results. It didn’t impact their user base at all, and shouldn’t at Twitter either.

If you advocate for non-commercial use of social sites, how much of their monthly overhead would you be willing to fund to keep it that way? Or would you be willing to fund and operate your own non-commercial websites?

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Great post! I hadn’t heard about this, thanks for keeping us informed.

Well, it was bound to happen. Always does when a site gets to popular.

I’m with you on the advertising, though. Once they start, next thing you know we will have to wade through tons of it.

Keep us posted on the happenings on this.

Great Job!

Shelby

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Fred

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It’ll be interesting to see what happens with this and what the repercussions will be.

You never know what might happen when a large corporation gets their hands on something like this.

BTW: I have seen several people, including the big Guru’s (or so it appears anyway) using Twitter for spam already. Not sure what the best way to stop it would be.

Brett McEllhiney

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Will it have ads of some type at some point – most likely and may even have an upgrade to remove them. Hard to say but some form of monetization is necessary.

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